Thence am I; Lydia was my fatherland.
Pentheus.
And whence these revelations, that thy band
Spreadeth in Hellas?
Dionysus.
Their intent and use
Dionysus oped to me, the Child of Zeus.
Pentheus (brutally).
Is there a Zeus there, that can still beget
Young Gods?
Dionysus.
Nay, only He whose seal was set
Here in thy Thebes on Semelê.