Bacchae

Euripides

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

  1. Io! Io! Master, master! Come now to our company, Bromius.
Dionysus
  1. Shake the world’s plain, lady Earthquake!
Chorus
  1. Oh! Oh! Soon the palace of Pentheus will be shaken in ruin. [*](The following lines are probably delivered by individual chorus members.) —Dionysus is in the halls.
  2. Revere him. —We revere him! —Did you see these stone lintels on the pillars falling apart? Bromius cries out in victory indoors.
Dionysus
  1. Light the fiery lamp of lightning!