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                <requestUrn>urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg017.perseus-eng2:663-672</requestUrn>
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                <urn>urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg017.perseus-eng2:663-672</urn>
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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg017.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="episode"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg017.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="663">What important news do you come to bring?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Messenger</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg017.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="664">Having seen the holy Bacchae, who </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg017.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="665">goaded to madness have darted from this land with their fair feet, I have come to tell you and the city, lord, that they are doing terrible things, beyond marvel. I wish to hear whether I should tell you in free speech the situation there or whether I should repress my report, </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg017.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="670">for I fear, lord, the quickness of your mood, your keen temper and your too imperious disposition.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Pentheus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg017.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="672">Speak, as you will have immunity from me in any case. For it is not right to be angry with the just. The more you tell me terrible things about the Bacchae, </l></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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