Qui cum ipsum non invenissent, unum ex comitibus eius Acoetem captum ad Pentheum perduxerunt. Is cum de eo graviorem poenam constitueret, iussit eum interim claudi vinctum; cumque sponte sua et carceris fores apertae essent et vincula Acoeti excidissent, miratus Pentheus spectaturus sacra Liberi patris Cithaerona petit, quem visum bacchae discerpserunt.
These, when they could not find Liber himself, led Acoetes, one of his companions, captive into the presence of Pentheus. Pentheus, when he was appointing a heavier penalty for him, ordered him in the meantime to be kept fettered in prison. And when the doors of the jail had fallen open of their own accord, and Acoetes’ bonds had fallen from him, Pentheus was astonished and went to Cithaeron in order to be a spectator of the rites of Father Liber. When the bacchanal women saw him they tore him to pieces;[…] ― translation from the same source, 275
