Bacchae

Euripides

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

  1. A thyrsos in your hand, and a dappled fawn-skin.
Pentheus
  1. I could not put on a woman’s dress.
Dionysus
  1. But you will shed blood if you join battle with the Bacchae.
Pentheus
  1. True. We must go first and spy.
Dionysus
  1. This is at any rate wiser than hunting trouble with trouble.