Bacchus: [Ay,] for I have suffered terrible things from ye, having a name
unhonored in Thebes.
Agave: Farewell, my father.
Cadmus: And you farewell, O miserable daughter; yet you can not easily arrive
at this.
Agave: Lead me, O guides, where I may take my miserable sisters as the
companions of my flight; and may I go where neither accursed Cithaeron may
see me, nor I may see Cithaeron with my eyes, and where there is no memory
of the thyrsus hallowed, but they may be a care to other Bacchae.
Chorus: There are many forms of divine things; and the Gods bring to pass
many in an unexpected manner: both what has been expected has not been
accomplished, and God has found out a means for doing things unthought of.
So, too, has this event turned out.[70]
[70] These verses are found at the ends of no less than four others of our author's plays, viz. Andromacha, Helen, Medea, and Alcestis.
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