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Bacchæ [Βάκχαι], l. 734ff [Messenger/Ἄγγελος] (405 BC) [tr. Esposito (1998)] - Euripides | WIST Quotations
Only by fleeing did we avoid being torn to pieces by the Bacchae, but they attacked our grazing calves and not with swords in their hands. You could have seen one of them, apart from the others, mauling with both hands a young heifer with swelling udders, bellowing all the…