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The Bacchae

by Euripides

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The Bacchae Fourth Choral Lyric Summary

The Chorus sings a song of vengeance.
They bid the hounds of hell to whip the Maenads into a frenzy, so that they will destroy Pentheus.
Justice, they howl, must punish the sacrilegious man.
The Chorus prays for Bacchus (Dionysus) to come as a bull, a many headed dragon, or a fire breathing lion to trap Pentheus.

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