Eksodos
Kadmos
And I for you, child, and I weep for your sisters.
Agave
Terribly indeed has
lord Dionysus brought this misery to your home.
1375
Dionysus
Yes, for I suffered terrible things at your hands, with my name not honored in Thebes.
Agave
Farewell, my father.
daughter; and yet you cannot easily fare well.
1380
Agave
Lead me, escorts, where I may take my pitiful sisters as companions to my exile. May I go where accursed Kithairon may not see me,
nor I see Kithairon with my eyes, nor where a memorial of a thyrsos has been dedicated; let these concern other Bacchae.
1385
Chorus
Many are the forms of divine things, and the gods bring to pass many things unexpectedly;
what is expected has not been accomplished, but the god has found out a means for doing things unthought of. So too has this event turned out.
1390
