The next source given by Frazer is the Hymn to Minerva of Proclus. Here I find myself mildly embarassed — it turns out that I scanned this and placed it online long ago, here.
Once by thy care, as sacred poets sing,
The heart of Bacchus, swiftly-slaughtered king,
Was saved in aether, when, with fury fired, 15
The Titans fell against his life conspired;
And with relentless rage and thirst for gore,
Their hands his members into fragments tore:
But ever watchful of thy father’s will,
Thy pow’r preserved him from succeeding ill, 20
Till from the secret counsels of his sire,
And born from Semele through heav’nly fire,
Great Dionysus to the world at length
Again appeared with renovated strength.
This again is a version of the “killed by giants” myth. Again it’s very late in date.
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