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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 464 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 290 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 244 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 174 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 134 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 106 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (ed. E. P. Coleridge) | 74 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 64 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 62 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 | 58 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Second Messenger
Oh house once fortunate in Hellas, house of the Sidonian old man who once sowed in the ground the earth-born harvest of the serpent Ophis, how I groan for you, though I am a slave, but still [the masters' affairs are a concern to good servants].This line is most likely interpolated from Eur. Med. 54.
Chorus Leader
What is it? Do you bring some news from the Bacchae?
Messenger
Pentheus, the child of Echion, is dead.
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Chorus Leader
Lord Bacchus, truly you appear to be a great god.
Messenger
What do you mean? Why have you said this? Do you rejoice at the misfortunes of my master, woman?
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Chorus Leader
I, a foreign woman, rejoice with foreign songs; for no longer do I cower in fear of chains.
Messenger
Do you think Thebes so lacking in men?
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Chorus Leader
Dionysus, Dionysus, not Thebes, holds my allegiance.
Messenger
You may be forgiven, but still it is not good to rejoice at troubles once they have actually taken place, women.
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Teiresias
Whenever a wise man takes a good occasion for his speech, it is not a great task to speak well. You have a rapid tongue as though you were sensible, but there is no sense in your words. A man powerful in his boldness, one capable of speaking well, becomes a bad citizen in his lack of sense. This new god, whom you ridicule, I am unable to express how great he will be throughout Hellas. For two things, young man, are first among men: the goddess Demeter—she is the earth, but call her whatever name you wish; she nourishes mortals with dry food; but he who came afterwards, the offspring of Semele, discovered a match to it, the liquid drink of the grape, and introduced it to mortals. It releases wretched mortals from grief, whenever they are filled with the stream of the vine, and gives them sleep, a means of forgetting their daily troubles, nor is there another cure for hardships. He who is a god is poured out in offerings to the gods, so that by his means men may have goo