Bacchae

Euripides

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

  1. Without weapons I will bring the women here.
Pentheus
  1. Alas! You are contriving this as a trick against me.
Dionysus
  1. What sort, if I wish to save you by my contrivances?
Pentheus
  1. You have devised this together, so that you may have your revelry forever.
Dionysus
  1. I certainly did—that is so—with the god.