Euripides' BACCHAE Complete

Translated, with notes, by Th. Buckley.

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Pentheus: And did you come hither first, bringing the God?

Bacchus: Every one of the barbarians celebrates these orgies.

Pentheus: [Ay,] for they are much less wise than Greeks.

Bacchus: In these things they are wiser, but their laws are different.

Pentheus: Do you practice these rites at night, or by day?

BAG. Most of them at night;[29] darkness conveys awe.

Pentheus: This is treacherous toward women, and unsound.

Bacchus: Even by day some may devise base things.

Pentheus: You must pay the penalty of your evil devices.

[29] Hence his epithet of Bacchus Νυκτελιος. See Herm. on Orph. Hymn. xlix. 3.

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