Bacchae

Euripides

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

  1. O father, I will go into exile deprived of you.
Kadmos
  1. Why do you embrace me with your hands, child,
  2. like a swan for its exhausted gray-haired parent?
Agave
  1. For where can I turn, banished from my father-land?
Kadmos
  1. I do not know, child; your father is a poor ally.