“And having shown the Thebans that he was a god, Dionysus came to Argos, and there again, because they did not honour him, he .drove the women mad, and they on the mountains devoured the flesh of the infants whom they carried at their breasts.‘ And wishing to be ferried across from Icaria to Naxos he hired a pirate ship of Tyrrhenians. But when they had put him on board, they sailed past Naxos and made for Asia, intending to sell him.”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. V · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan