Euripides' BACCHAE Complete

Translated, with notes, by Th. Buckley.

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Bacchus: It is unlawful for the uninitiated among mortals to know.

Pentheus: And have they any profit to those who sacrifice?

Bacchus: It is not lawful for you to hear, but they are worth knowing.

Pentheus: You have well coined this story, that I may wish to hear.

Bacchus: The orgies of the God hate him who works impiety.

Pentheus: For you say, forsooth, that you saw the God clearly what he was like?

Bacchus: As he chose; I did not order this.

Pentheus: This too you have well contrived, saying mere nonsense.

Bacchus: One may seem, speaking wisely to one ignorant, not to be wise.

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