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    Euripides, Bacchae (ed. T. A. Buckley)

    Dionysus

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. T. A. Buckley)
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    Go to the mountain, go, fleet hounds of Madness, where the daughters of Kadmos hold their company, and drive them raving [980]  against the mad spy on the Maenads, the one dressed in women's attire. His mother will be the first to see him from a smooth rock or crag, as he lies in ambush, and she will cry out to the maenads: [985] “Who is this seeker of the mountain-going Kadmeans who has come to the mountain, to the mountain, Bacchae? Who bore him? For he was not born from a woman's blood, but is the offspring of some lioness [990]  or of Libyan Gorgons.

    Let manifest justice go forth, let it go with sword in hand, slaying through the throat [995]  this godless, lawless, unjust, earth-born offspring of Echion.

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Euripides. The Tragedies of Euripides, translated by T. A. Buckley. Bacchae. London. Henry G. Bohn. 1850.
    OCLC: 7742603


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