Euripides' BACCHAE Complete

Translated, with notes, by Th. Buckley.

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Chorus: I fear to speak unshackled words to the king, but still they shall be
spoken; Bacchus is inferior to none of the Gods.

Pentheus: Already like fire does this insolence of the Bacchae extend thus near,
a great reproach to the Greeks. But I must not hesitate; go to the Electra
gates, bid all the shield-bearers and riders of swift-footed horses to
assemble, and all who brandish the light shield, and twang with their hand
the string of the bow, as we will make an attack upon the Bacchae; but it is
too much, if we are to suffer what we are suffering at the hands of women.

Bacchus: O Pentheus, you obey not at all hearing my words; but although
suffering ill at your hands, still I say that you ought not to take up arms
against a God, but to rest quiet; Bromius will not endure your moving the
Bacchae from their Evian mountains.

Pentheus: You shall not teach me; but be content,[43] having escaped from
prison, or else I will again bring punishment upon you.

Bacchus: I would rather sacrifice to him than, being wrath, kick against the
pricks; a mortal against a God.

[43] More literally, perhaps, "keep it and be thankful."

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