Euripides' BACCHAE Complete

Translated, with notes, by Th. Buckley.

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Pentheus: Could I bear on my shoulders the glens of Cithaeron, Bacchae and all?

Bacchus: You could if you were willing; but you had your mind unsound before;
but now you have such as you ought.

Pentheus: Shall we bring levers, or shall I tear them up with my hands, putting
my shoulder or arm under the summits?

Bacchus: No, lest you ruin the habitations of the Nymphs, and the seats of Pan
where he plays his pipes.

Pentheus: You speak well,--it is not with strength we should conquer women; but
I will hide my body among the pines.

Bacchus: Hide you the hiding in which you should be hidden, coming as a crafty
spy on the Maenads.

Pentheus: And, indeed, I think to catch them in the thickets, like birds in the
sweet nets of beds.

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