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  • As many as I caught, my gaolers are keeping safe in the public prison fast bound; and all who are gone forth, will I chase from the hills, Ino and Agave too who bore me to Echion, and Actaeon's mother Autonoe.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • What furious rage the earth-born race displays, even Pentheus sprung of a dragon of old, himself the son of earth-born Echion, a savage monster in his very mien, not made in human mould, but like some murderous giant pitted against heaven; for he means to bind me, the handmaid of

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • As many as I caught, my gaolers are keeping safe in the public prison fast bound; and all who are gone forth, will I chase from the hills, Ino and Agave too who bore me to Echion, and Actaeon's mother Autonoe.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • What furious rage the earth-born race displays, even Pentheus sprung of a dragon of old, himself the son of earth-born Echion, a savage monster in his very mien, not made in human mould, but like some murderous giant pitted against heaven; for he means to bind me, the handmaid of

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • Thou didst give me to earthborn Echion, as men call him.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • Thou didst give me to earthborn Echion, as men call him.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • Nor at Alope stayed the sons of Hermes, rich in corn-land, well skilled in craftiness, Erytus and Echion, and with them on their departure their kinsman Aethalides went as the third; him near the streams of Amphrysus

    The Argonautica 2008

  • "Don't be so down in the mouth," chimed in Echion, the ragman;

    Satyricon 2007

  • Let manifest justice go forth, let it go with sword in hand, slaying the godless, lawless, unjust, earth-born offspring of Echion through the throat; who, with wicked mind and unjust rage about your orgies, O Bacchus, and those of thy mother, [53] with raving heart and mad disposition proceeds as about to overcome an invincible deity by force.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • As many then as I have taken, the servants keep them bound as to their hands in the public strong-holds, and as many as are absent I will hunt from the mountain, Ino, and Agave who bore me to Echion, and the mother of Actæon, I mean Autonoe; and having bound them in iron fetters, I will soon stop them from this ill-working revelry.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

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