تأتي الشدائد اختباراً حقيقياً لمعدن الأصدقاء، وهو اختبار لا تكذب نتائجه قط.

“Your very silence shows you agree.”

“Come, God -- Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus -- burst into life, burstinto being, be…”

“O Dionysus, Son of God,do you see our sufferings?Do you see your faithfulin hel…”

“Mighty is geometry joined with art resistless.”