Bacchae

Euripides

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

  1. nearby, raving Satyrs were fulfilling the rites of the mother goddess, and they joined it to the dances of the biennial festivals, in which Dionysus rejoices.
Chorus
  1. He is sweet in the mountains [*](cf. Dodds, ad loc.), whenever after the running dance he falls on the ground, wearing the sacred garment of fawn skin, hunting the blood of the slain goat, a raw-eaten delight, rushing to the
  2. Phrygian, the Lydian mountains, and the leader of the dance is Bromius, evoe! [*](A ritual cry of delight.) The plain flows with milk, it flows with wine, it flows with the nectar of bees.
  3. The Bacchic one, raising the flaming torch of pine on his thyrsos, like the smoke of Syrian incense, darts about, arousing the wanderers with his racing and dancing, agitating them with his shouts,
  4. casting his rich locks into the air. And among the Maenad cries his voice rings deep: [*](This last phrase taken verbatim from Dodds, ad loc.) Go, Bacchae, go, Bacchae, with the luxury of Tmolus that flows with gold,