The crisis is come! Ho, to the mountains; where the Chorus picture the
scene already being enacted, the hunter of the Bacchanals caught in the
inexorable net of death. VENGEANCE ON THE LAWLESS SON OF ECHION is the
recurrent burden of the ode. Its prayer is to hold fast the pious
mind, the smooth painless life at peace with heaven and earth, instead
of fighting with the invincible, aweless outcast from all law. {1036}