410 BC THE BACCHANTES by Euripides Characters in the Play Dionysus Cadmus Pentheus Agave Tei...
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rich banquet, set before them, afford to men delight. CHORUS I heard a bitter cry of lamentation! ...
Bacchic wand; droll sight enough! Father, it grieves me to see you two old men so void of sense. Oh...
Back to their source the holy rivers turn their tide. Order and the universe are being reversed. 'T...
The reason being, they are far behind Hellenes in wisdom. DIONYSUS In this at least far in advance...
in passion's venom dipped. antistrophe 1 On me may chastity, heaven's fairest gift, look with a fa...
shall he beget issue, for she must die a hideous death, slain by my drugs. Let no one deem me a poo...
Your father who? Your sister, if perchance Ye have a sister, of what youths deprived? For brother ...
side not to a calm, there is no hope Of safety to the strangers. Be assured, That Neptune, awful m...
And those I wish to address, be safe, and live, No base reward for a light letter, life Receiving;...
But will the monarch to these things assent? IPHIGENIA By me induced. Him I will see embark'd. OR...
This to devise is thine. Wilt thou by land, Thy bark deserted, speed thy flight on foot? Perils aw...
ORESTES To form devices quick is woman's wit. IPHIGENIA And say, thy mother slain, thou fledd'st ...
Thou daughter of that chief, whose powers Plough'd with a thousand keels the strand And ranged in ...
IPHIGENIA Spontaneous, and, averted, closed its eyes. THOAS What was the cause? The blood-stain'd...