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The tragedies of Euripides translated [by R. Potter]. by R. Potter
The tragedies of Euripides translated by R Potter - by R. Potter Author:Euripides Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: naturally the reflection might arise from the subject of the other four, it does not seem to be pertinent to this; the proper moral of which is, as it was expres... more »sed by Cadmus on the death of Pen- tlieus, If there be A man, whose impious pride cojitemns the gods, Let him behold bis death, and own their pow'r. The scene is at Thebes before the vestibule of the palace of Pentheus. PERSONS Of The DRAMA. BACCHUS T1RESIAS CADMUS PENTHEUS AGAVE OFFICER MESSENGERS CHORUS Of Asiatic Bacch. chapter{Section 4THE BACCH.E. v. 1—22. Bacc. lN OW to this land, the realms of Thebes, I conn., Bacchus, the son of Jove, whom Semele, Daughter of Cadmus, 'midst the lightning flames Brought forth; the god beneath a mortal's form Concealing, on the brink of Dirce's fount, And where Ismenus rolls his stream, I tread. I see my mother's tomb rais'd near the house In which she perish'd by the thunder; yet Its ruins smoke, th' aetherial fire yet lives, The everlasting mark of Juno's hate Wreck'd on my mother. Cadmus hath my pniisc, Who to his daughter rais'd this shrine, the ground HahWd from vulgar tread : the clust'ring vine I gave to wreath around its verdant boughs. Leaving the Lydian fields profuse of gold, The Phrygian, and the Persian plains expos'd To the sun's rays, and from the tow'red forts Of Bactria passing, from the frozen soil Of Media, from Arabia the blest, And all that tract of Asia which along The salt sea lies, where with Barbarians mix'd The .Grecians many a stately-structur'd town Inhabit, to this city, first of Greece, I come, here lead my dance, my mystic rites Establish here, that mortals may confess The manifest god. Of all the realms of Greece In Thebes I first have rais'd my shouts, thus cloth'd With a fawn's dappled ...« less