[sc. An epithet of] Dionysus. Sophocles in Tyros [calls him so].[1] [Used] instead of[2] because an ox was given to Dionysus by the winners of the dithyrambic [competition].[3] Alternatively the eater of raw flesh. From which Aristophanes has even applied the name, metaphorically, to Cratinus.
"Who [...] has neither seen or danced the orgies of the noble Muses, nor been initiated in the Bacchic rites of the tongue of bull-eating Cratinus."[4] As to Aristarchus[5] and his circle, who think that [the word arises] because a bull is the prize for them; this is false. What the passage from the Tyros of Sophocles says [is]: "of Dionysus the bull-eater". And because he [Cratinus] loved wine; and because of this, they give this epithet of Dionysus to him. Some apply the word, even more curiously, to the mother of Cratinus, who had been initiated in the Bacchic rites, which are those of Dionysus the calf-eater. Alternatively [she is called] rash [tolmera], from the Bacchantes.