τίς ποτ᾽ ἀκηδέστως οἰνοτρόφον ὄμφακα Βάκχου
ἀνήρ ἀμπελίνου κλήματος ἐξέταμεν,

χείλεα δὲ στυφθεὶς ἀπό μιν βάλεν, ὡς ἂν ὁδίταις
εἴη νισσομένοις ἡμιδακὲς σκύβαλον;

εἴη οἱ Διόνυσος ἀνάρσιος, οἷα Λυκοῦργος
ὅττι % μιν αὐξομέναν ἔσβεσεν εὐφροσύναν.
τοῦδε γὰρ ἂν τάχα τις διὰ πώματος ἢ πρὸς ἀοιδὰς
ἤλυθεν, ἢ γοεροῦ κάδεος ἔσχε λύσιν.

— Paton edition

What man thus carelessly plucked from the vine-
branch the unripe grapes of Bacchus that nurse the
wine, and when his lips were drawn up by the taste
threw them away, half-chewed refuse for travellers
to tread on ? May Dionysus be his foe, because, like
Lycurgus, he quenched good cheer in its growth.
Haply by that drink had some man been moved to
song, or found relief from plaintive grief.

— Paton edition

What man thus carelessly plucked from the vine-
branch the unripe grapes of Bacchus that nurse the
wine, and when his lips were drawn up by the taste
threw them away, half-chewed refuse for travellers
to tread on ? May Dionysus be his foe, because, like
Lycurgus, he quenched good cheer in its growth.
Haply by that drink had some man been moved to
song, or found relief from plaintive grief.

— Paton edition

τίς ποτ᾽ ἀκηδέστως οἰνοτρόφον ὄμφακα Βάκχου
ἀνήρ ἀμπελίνου κλήματος ἐξέταμεν,

χείλεα δὲ στυφθεὶς ἀπό μιν βάλεν, ὡς ἂν ὁδίταις
εἴη νισσομένοις ἡμιδακὲς σκύβαλον;

εἴη οἱ Διόνυσος ἀνάρσιος, οἷα Λυκοῦργος
ὅττι % μιν αὐξομέναν ἔσβεσεν εὐφροσύναν.
τοῦδε γὰρ ἂν τάχα τις διὰ πώματος ἢ πρὸς ἀοιδὰς
ἤλυθεν, ἢ γοεροῦ κάδεος ἔσχε λύσιν.

— Paton edition