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Dionysus
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Io! Hear my voice, hear it, Io Bacchae, Io Bacchae! Chorus
Who is here, who? From what quarter did the voice of the Joyful one summon me? Dionysus
[580] Io! Io! I say again; it is I, the child of Zeus and Semele. Chorus
Io! Io! Master, master! Come now to our company, Bromius. Dionysus
[585] Shake the world's plain, lady Earthquake! Chorus
Oh! Oh! Soon the palace of Pentheus will be shaken in ruin. 1 —Dionysus is in the halls. [590] Revere him. —We revere him! —Did you see these stone lintels on the pillars falling apart? Bromius cries out in victory indoors. Dionysus
Light the fiery lamp of lightning! [595] Burn, burn Pentheus' home! Chorus
Oh! Oh! Do you not see the the fire, do you not perceive, about the sacred tomb of Semele, the flame that Zeus' thunderbolt left? [600] Cast on the ground your trembling bodies, Maenads, cast them down, for our lord, Zeus' son, is coming against this palace, turning everything upside down.
1 The following lines are probably delivered by individual chorus members.
Euripides. The Tragedies of Euripides, translated by T. A. Buckley. Bacchae. London. Henry G. Bohn. 1850.
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