Bacchae

Euripides

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

  1. One will seem to be foolish if he speaks wisely to an ignorant man.
Pentheus
  1. Did you come here first, bringing the god?
Dionysus
  1. All the barbarians celebrate these rites.
Pentheus
  1. Yes, for they are far more foolish than Hellenes.
Dionysus
  1. In this at any rate they are wiser; but their laws are different.