Go, daughter, to the house of Aristaeus,[*]
[* Another large lacuna follows.]

AGAVE
Father, I mourn for thee.

CADMUS
And I for thee, my child; for thy sisters too I shed a tear.

AGAVE
Ah! terribly was king Dionysus bringing this outrage on thy house.

CADMUS
Yea, for he suffered insults dire from you, his name receiving

no meed of honour in Thebes.
AGAVE

Farewell, father mine!
CADMUS

Farewell, my hapless daughter and yet thou scarce canst reach that
bourn.

AGAVE
Oh! lead me, guide me to the place where I shall find my

sisters, sharers in my exile to their sorrow! Oh! to reach a spot
where cursed Cithaeron ne'er shall see me more nor I Cithaeron with

mine eyes; where no memorial of the thyrsus is set up! Be they to
other Bacchantes dear!

CHORUS
Many are the forms the heavenly will assumes, and many a thing the

gods fulfilcontrary to all hope; that which was expected is not
brought to pass, while for the unlooked-for Heaven finds out a way.

E'en such hath been the issue here.
Exeunt OMNES.

THE END
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• terribly [´terəbli] ad.可怕地 (初中英语单词)
• scarce [skeəs, skers] a.缺乏的；稀有的 (初中英语单词)
• fulfil [ful´fil] vt.履行；完成；执行 (初中英语单词)
• contrary [´kɔntrəri] a.相反的 n.相反 (初中英语单词)
• outrage [´aut,reidʒ] n.残暴 vt.虐待；伤害 (高中英语单词)
• memorial [mi´mɔ:riəl] a.纪念的 n.纪念物 (高中英语单词)
• heavenly [´hevənli] a.天的，天空的 (高中英语单词)
• hapless [´hæpləs] a.不幸的；倒楣的 (英语六级单词)