79. Since however it was fated that evil should happen to him, it happened by an occasion of this kind:-he formed a desire to be initiated in the rites of Bacchus-Dionysos, and as he was just about to receive the initiation, there happened a very great portent.
79. Baina beharrezkoa baitzen zoritxarra gerta zekion, honelako abagunean gertatu zitzaion. Dionyso Bakkhoarraren erritoei ekitea gogo eman zion; eta, ekitera zihoala, mirari izugarri bat gertatu zen.