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EURIPIDES.

Dionysus.

Long robes: and on thine head a coif shall be.


Pentheus.

Nought else but these wouldst thou add unto me?


Dionysus.

Thyrsus in hand, and dappled fell of fawn. ⁠835


Pentheus.

I cannot drape me in a woman's robe!


Dionysus.

Then in the fight with Maenads blood must flow.[1]


Pentheus.

Ay, true:—first must I go and spy them out.


Dionysus.

Sooth, wiser so than hunt thee ills with ills.


Pentheus.

Yet, how through Kadmus' city pass unseen? ⁠840


Dionysus.

By lone paths will we go. Myself will guide.


Pentheus.

Better were anything than Bacchants' mock.

  1. ↑ Implying that it will not be theirs; but the manuscript reading is uncertain, and it is doubtful if it can bear this or any satisfactory sense. Tyrrell approves Housman's conjecture, εὐμαθὴς εἶ: "How?—be detected? singly fight yon Maenads?"
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