Epeisodion 3
Dionysus
What sort, if I wish to save you by my contrivances?
Pentheus
You have devised this together, so that you may have your revelry forever.
Dionysus
I certainly did—that is so—with the god.
Pentheus
To a servant
Bring me my armor. To Dionysus And you, stop speaking.
Dionysus
Ah! Do you wish to see them sitting together in the mountains?
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Pentheus
Certainly. I’d give an enormous amount of gold for that.
Dionysus
Why do you desire this so badly?
Pentheus
I would be sorry to see them in their drunkenness.
Dionysus
But would you see gladly what is grievous to you?
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Pentheus
To be sure, sitting quietly under the pines.
Dionysus
But they will track you down, even if you go in secret.
Pentheus
You are right: I will go openly.
Dionysus
Shall I guide you? Will you attempt the journey?
Pentheus
Lead me as quickly as possible. I grudge you the time.
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Dionysus
Put linen clothes on your body then.
Pentheus
What is this? Shall I then, instead of a man, be reckoned among the women?
Dionysus
Lest they kill you if you are seen there as a man.
Pentheus
Again you speak correctly: how wise you have been all along!
Dionysus
Dionysus taught me these things fully.
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Pentheus
How can your advice to me be well carried out?
