“Go home to your wife. Go bury her.”

“I understand too well the dreadful actI'm going to commit, but my judgementcan't check my anger, and that incitesthe greatest evils human beings do.”

“No one who goes against her can win.”

“O Dionysus, we feel you near,stirring like molten lavaunder the ravaged earth,flowing from the wounds of your treesin tears of sap,screaming with the rageof your hunted beasts.”

“We'll see how the sky catches fire. We'll see how she feeds the flames with her implacable hate.”

“tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!”

“Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.”