Bacchae

Euripides

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

  1. Alas! A miserable exile has been decreed for us, old man.
Dionysus
  1. Why then do you delay what must necessarily be?
Kadmos
  1. Child, what a terrible disaster we have all come to—unhappy you, your sisters, and unhappy me. I shall reach a foreign land
  2. as an aged immigrant. Still it is foretold that I shall bring into Hellas a motley barbarian army. Leading their spears, I, having the fierce nature of a serpent, will bring my wife Harmonia, daughter of Ares, to the altars and tombs of Hellas.
  3. I will neither rest from my troubles in my misery, nor will I sail over the downward flowing Acheron and be at peace.