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Chorus
Cadmus of Tyre came to this land, and at his feet a four-footed, [640] untamed heifer threw itself down, fulfilling an oracle, where the god's prophecy told him to make his home in the plains rich with wheat, [645] and where the lovely waters of Dirce pour over the fields, the green and deep-seeded fields; here Bromius' mother gave birth [650] from her union with Zeus; Bromius, round whom the ivy twined its wreaths while he was still a baby, covering him and blessing him in the shades of its green foliage, [655] a Bacchic dance for the maids and wives inspired in Thebes.
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 2. The Phoenissae, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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