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Euripides, Bacchae (ed. T. A. Buckley)
Chorus
Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. T. A. Buckley)
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Chorus
Whom once, in the compulsion of birth pains, [90] the thunder of Zeus flying upon her, his mother cast from her womb, leaving life by the stroke of a thunderbolt. Immediately Zeus, Kronos' son, [95] received him in a chamber fit for birth, and having covered him in his thigh shut him up with golden clasps, hidden from Hera.
And he brought forth, when the Fates [100] had perfected him, the bull-horned god, and he crowned him with crowns of snakes, for which reason Maenads cloak their wild prey over their locks.
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Cross references from Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes:
* [Pythian Odes]: eteken d' hanika Moirai telesan taurokerôn theon
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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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