Euripides' BACCHAE Complete

Translated, with notes, by Th. Buckley.

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Messenger: O house, which wast formerly prosperous in Greece! house of the
Sidonian old man, who sowed in the land the earth-born harvest of the
dragon; how I lament for you, though a slave. But still the [calamities] of
their masters are a grief to good servants.

Chorus: But what is the matter? Tellest thou any news from the Bacchae?

Messenger: Pentheus is dead, the son of his father Echion.

Chorus: O, king Bacchus! truly you appear a great God!

Messenger: How sayest thou? Why do you say this? Do you, O woman, delight at my
master being unfortunate?

Chorus: I, a foreigner, celebrate it in foreign strains; for no longer do I
crouch in fear under my fetters.

Messenger: But do you think Thebes thus void of men?

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