id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt euripides-bacchantes-1942 euripides-bacchantes-1942 .txt text/plain 12309 1029 92 CHORUS Old sir, thy words do not discredit Phoebus, and thou art PENTHEUS Touch me not away to thy Bacchic rites thyself! PENTHEUS Perhaps he may, when thou standest amid thy Bacchanals and DIONYSUS He is by my side; thou art a godless man and therefore dost Dost thou mark this, O Dionysus, son of Zeus, on the peaks of Corycus art thou, Dionysus, marshalling with thy wand DIONYSUS Stay where thou art; and moderate thy fury. PENTHEUS How is it thou hast escaped thy fetters and art at large? PENTHEUS How wise thou art, except where thy wisdom is needed! Agave, mother of Pentheus, from her Bacchic rites, and thereby do DIONYSUS They may kill thee, if thou show thy manhood there. Stretch forth thy hands, Agave, and ye her sisters, daughters of Cadmus; CADMUS He would go and mock the god and thy Bacchic rites. ./cache/euripides-bacchantes-1942.txt ./txt/euripides-bacchantes-1942.txt