Bacchae

Euripides

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

  1. I will sacrifice, making a great slaughter of the women, as they deserve, in the glens of Kithairon.
Dionysus
  1. You will all flee. And it will be a source of shame that you turn your bronze shields away from the thyrsoi of the Bacchae.
Pentheus
  1. This stranger with whom I am locked together is impossible, and neither suffering nor doing will he be quiet.
Dionysus
  1. My friend, there is still opportunity to arrange these things well.
Pentheus
  1. Doing what? Being a slave to my slaves?