Bacchae

Euripides

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

  1. Lead me as quickly as possible. I grudge you the time.
Dionysus
  1. Put linen clothes on your body then.
Pentheus
  1. What is this? Shall I then, instead of a man, be reckoned among the women?
Dionysus
  1. Lest they kill you if you are seen there as a man.
Pentheus
  1. Again you speak correctly: how wise you have been all along!