Euripides' BACCHAE Complete

Translated, with notes, by Th. Buckley.

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Bacchus: But we who ought to wait upon you will again rearrange it. But hold up
your head.

Pentheus: Look, do you arrange it, for we depend on you.

Bacchus: And your girdle is loosened, and the fringes of your garments do not
extend regularly round your legs.

Pentheus: They seem so to me, too, about the right foot at least; but on this
side the robe sits well along the leg.

Bacchus: Will you not think me the first of your friends when, contrary to your
expectation, you see the Bacchae acting modestly?

Pentheus: But shall I be more like a Bacchant holding the thyrsus in my right
hand, or in this?

Bacchus: You should [hold it in] your right hand, and raise it at the same time
with your right foot; and I praise you for having changed your mind.

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