Euripides' BACCHAE Complete

Translated, with notes, by Th. Buckley.

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Agave: Descendants after me, after me laid hands on this beast.

Chorus: You are fortunate in this capture.

Agave: Partake then of our feast.

Chorus: What shall I, unhappy, partake of?

Agave: The whelp is young about the chin; he has just lost his soft-haired
head-gear.[63]

Agave: For it is beautiful as the mane of a wild beast.

Chorus: Bacchus, a wise huntsman, wisely hurried the Maenads against this
beast.

Chorus: For the king is a huntsman.

[63] "κορυθα, ornamentum capitis, vix potest dubitari quin pro ipso capite posuerit." Hermann. There is considerable variation in the manner in which the following lines are disposed.

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