Chorus
Where on
Nysa
, which nourishes wild beasts, or on Corycian heights, do you lead with your thyrsos the bands of revelers?
Perhaps in the deep-wooded lairs of
Olympus
, where Orpheus once playing the lyre drew together trees by his songs, drew together the beasts of the fields.
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Blessed
Pieria
, the Joyful one reveres you and will come to lead the dance in revelry; having crossed the swiftly flowing
Axius
he will bring the
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whirling Maenads, leaving Lydias, giver of wealth to mortals, the father who they say fertilizes the land of beautiful horses with
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fairest streams.
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Bacchae. Euripides. T. A. Buckley (Translator). London. 1850.
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