Bacchae

Euripides

Euripides. The Tragedies of Euripides. Vol. I. Buckley, Theodore Alois, translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850.

  1. What son did you bear to your husband in the house?
Agave
  1. Pentheus, from my union with his father.
Kadmos
  1. Whose head do you hold in your hands?
Agave
  1. A lion’s, as they who hunted him down said.
Kadmos
  1. Examine it correctly then; it takes but little effort to see.