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132 and in that guise to pass through the streets of Thebes. His eagerness to behold the Bacchantes makes him insensible to the indignity of the situation. He asks—

He takes for his guide to the mountains the handsome stranger whom he had so recently ordered to sit in darkness and prepare for death: he is even obsequious to him:—

Bacchus calls to his train, and gives his instructions to them how to deal with their prey, when they have him in the toils:—

The Chorus respond to the summons of their divine leader in passionate and jubilant strains, and anticipate the doom of their persecuting foe:—

Slow come, but come at length,

In their majestic strength,

Faithful and true, the avenging deities: