Illustrations of Euripides, on the Ion and the Bacchæ (Classic Reprint)

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According to the Pagan creed, the Theban. Bacchus was the Son of jupiter and Semele Daughter of Cadmus: Her connexion with her immortal lover difgufted the jealoufy of the imperial Juno and therefore under the difguife of Beroe3 {he impofed on her female vanity by exciting doubts on the reality of Jupiter The prevailing argument, which the God defs artfully ufes for that purpofe, as related in Ovid, sfi'erts, that many Mortals under the name of Gods had before fes duced the challity of innocent Virgins.

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