Euripides' BACCHAE Complete

Translated, with notes, by Th. Buckley.

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Cadmus: Why do you embrace me with your hands, O unhappy child, as a white
swan does its exhausted[69] parent?

Agave: For whither can I turn, cast out from my country?

Cadmus: I know not, my child; your father is a poor ally.

Agave: Farewell, O house! farewell, O ancestral city! I leave you in
misfortune a fugitive from my chamber.

Cadmus: Go then, my child, to the land of Aristaeus * * * *.

Agave: I bemoan thee, O father!

Cadmus: And I thee, my child; and I lament your sisters.

Agave: Terribly indeed has king Bacchus brought this misery upon thy house.

[69] See Musgrave. Cranes are chiefly celebrated for parental affection.

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