Eksodos
Kadmos
First cast your eye up to this sky.
Agave
All right; why do you tell me to look at it?
1265
Kadmos
Is it still the same, or does it appear to have changed?
Agave
It is brighter than before and more translucent.
Kadmos
Is your soul still quivering?
Agave
I don’t understand your words. I have become somehow
sobered, changing from my former state of mind.
1270
Kadmos
Can you hear and respond clearly?
Agave
Yes, for I forget what we said before, father.
Kadmos
To whose house did you come in marriage?
Agave
You gave me, as they say, to Echion, the sown man.
Kadmos
What son did you bear to your husband in the house?
1275
Agave
Pentheus, from my union with his father.
Kadmos
Whose head do you hold in your hands?
Agave
A lion’s, as they who hunted him down said.
Kadmos
Examine it correctly then; it takes but little effort to see.
Agave
Ah! What do I see? What is this that I carry in my hands?
1280
Kadmos
Look at it and learn more clearly.
Agave
I see the greatest grief, wretched that I am.
Kadmos
Does it seem to you to be like a lion?
