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  • Bacchus was called Bromius, from βρέμω, ‘to cry out,’ or ‘shout,’ from the yells and noise made by his worshippers, whose peculiar cries were, Εὐοῖ Βάκχε, ὦ Ἰακχε,

    The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847

  • Cyclops 'lonely land and see king Bromius, ivy-crowned, the god I sorely miss.

    The Cyclops 2008

  • In spite of all the evil treatment I am enduring from thee, still I warn thee of the sin of bearing arms against a god, and bid thee cease; for Bromius will not endure thy driving his votaries from the mountains where they revel.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • Then did Bromius-so at least it seemed to me; I only tell you what I thought-made a phantom in the hall, and he rushed after it in headlong haste, and stabbed the lustrous air, thinking he wounded me.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • Have they the drink of Bromius, the juice of the vine?

    The Cyclops 2008

  • Have they the drink of Bromius, the juice of the vine?

    The Cyclops 2008

  • Oh! mighty is the virtue in dress of dappled fawn-skin, in ivy green that twineth round a sacred thyrsus, in whirling tambourines struck as they revolve in air in tresses wildly streaming for the revelry of Bromius, and likewise in the sleepless vigils of the goddess, when the moon looks down and sheds her radiance o'er the scene.

    Helen 2008

  • I was, as I pursued the pirates who carried Bromius off.

    The Cyclops 2008

  • I was, as I pursued the pirates who carried Bromius off.

    The Cyclops 2008

  • Cyclops 'lonely land and see king Bromius, ivy-crowned, the god I sorely miss.

    The Cyclops 2008

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