Chorus
Would that I could go to
Cyprus
, the island of Aphrodite, where the Loves, who soothe
mortals’ hearts, dwell, and to
Paphos
, fertilized without rain by the streams of a foreign river flowing with a hundred mouths. Lead me there, Bromius, Bromius, god of joy who leads the Bacchae,
405
to
Pieria
, beautiful seat of the Muses, the holy slope of
Olympus
. There are the Graces, there is Desire; there it is
410
lawful for the Bacchae to celebrate their rites.
415
Bacchae. Euripides. T. A. Buckley (Translator). London. 1850.
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