menoekeus

Updated: June 5, 2025

But through the livelong night Let us in sacred band approach the temples, And Bacchus to the dance The god who shakes the soil of Thebes be leader. "But hither Creon, lo! proceeds, Son of Menoekeus, newly rais'd The sceptre of this land to sway. Now at new tokens of the gods, Methinks, some sage device he plies.

Giberne Sieveking - Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman