Bacchae
Euripides
Euripides. The Tragedies of Euripides. Vol. I. Buckley, Theodore Alois, translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850.
- Yes, for we alone think rightly, the rest wrongly.
- The delay is long; come, take hold of my hand.
- Here, take hold, and join your hand with mine.
- Having been born mortal I do not scorn the gods.
- We mortals have no cleverness in the eyes of the the gods.[*](Dodds admits that the text, as it appears in Murray, should be translated this way, but feels that the line should mean nor do we use cleverness on the gods or something similar. He argues for another reading that would allow this.) Our ancestral traditions, and those which we have held throughout our lives, no argument will overturn, not even if some craftiness should be discovered by the depths of our wits. [*](This translation, though literal, fudges on the meaning: ἀκραὶ φρένες must mean something like best or most subtle minds.) Will anyone say that I do not respect old age,