Arnobe, Contre les pa?ens, V, 19

Texte

[5,19] (...)  4. Sed et illa desistimus Bacchanalia altera praedicare, in quibus arcana el tacenda res proditur insinuaturque sacratis, ut occupatus puerilibus ludicris distractus ab Titanis Libersit, ut ab isdem membratim sectus atque in ollulas coniectus ut coqueretur, quemadmodum Iuppiter suauitate odoris inlectus, inuocatus aduolarit ad prandium conpertaque re graui grassatores obruerit ful mine atque in imas Tartari praecipitauerit sedes. 5. Cuius rei testimonium argumentumque fortunae suis prodidit in carminibus Thracius talos speculum turbines, uolubiles rotulas et teretis pilas et uirginibus aurea sumpta ab Hesperidibus mala.

Traduction

But those other Bacchanalia also we refuse to proclaim, in which there is revealed and taught to the initiated a secret not to be spoken; how Liber, when taken up with boyish sports, was torn asunder by the Titans; how he was cut up limb by limb by them also, and thrown into pots that he might be cooked; how Jupiter, allured by the sweet savour, rushed unbidden to the meal, and discovering what had been done, overwhelmed the revellers with his terrible thunder, and hurled them to the lowest part of Tartarus. As evidence and proof of which, the Thracian bard handed down in his poems the dice, mirror, tops, hoops, and smooth balls, and golden apples taken from the virgin Hesperides.

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Autre traduction : 
The Thracian poet put forth in his songs evidence of that [i.e. of what happened to Dionysos] and proof of hos [Dionysos?] fate: knuckle-bones, mirror, spinning tops, spinning wheels, and round balls, and golden apples taken from the Hesperides 

Datation
Vers 260 - 327

Auteur
Arnobe, en latin Arnobius, dit l'Ancien (240/260 - 304/327), est un écrivain de langue latine qui enseigna la rhétorique à Sicca Veneria en Numidie (Afrique du Nord), à l'époque chrétienne.

Extrait de
Arnobe l'Ancien, Contre les païens (Advertus Gentes), Livre V, 19, 5.