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Book 4 · lines 416–430
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416Tum vero totis Bacchi memorabile Thebis
417numen erat, magnasque novi matertera vires
418narrat ubique dei, de totque sororibus expers
419una doloris erat, nisi quem fecere sorores.
420Adspicit hanc natis thalamoque Athamantis habentem
421sublimes animos et alumno numine Iuno,
422nec tulit, et secum “potuit de paelice natus
423vertere Maeonios pelagoque inmergere nautas
424et laceranda suae nati dare viscera matri
425et triplices operire novis Minyeidas alis:
426nil poterit Iuno nisi inultos flere dolores?
427idque mihi satis est? haec una potentia nostra est?
428ipse docet, quid agam (fas est et ab hoste doceri),
429quidque furor valeat, Penthea caede satisque
430ac super ostendit: cur non stimuletur eatque