Bacchae

Euripides

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

  1. You have learned it too late; you did not know it when you should have.
Kadmos
  1. Now we know, but you go too far against us.
Dionysus
  1. Yes, for I, a god by birth, was insulted by you.
Kadmos
  1. Gods should not resemble mortals in their anger.
Dionysus
  1. My father Zeus approved this long ago.