Agamemnon

Aeschylus

Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.

  1. They who, far sending, back again have brought me.
  2. And Victory, since she followed, fixed remain she!
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Men, citizens, Argeians here, my worships!
  2. I shall not shame me, consort-loving manners
  3. To tell before you: for in time there dies off
  4. The diffidence from people. Not from others
  5. Learning, I of myself will tell the hard life
  6. I bore so long as this man was ’neath Ilion.
  7. First: for a woman, from the male divided,
  8. To sit at home alone, is monstrous evil —
  9. Hearing the many rumours back-revenging:
  10. And for now This to come, now That bring after
  11. Woe, and still worse woe, bawling in the household!
  12. And truly, if so many wounds had chanced on
  13. My husband here, as homeward used to dribble
  14. Report, he’s pierced more than a net to speak of!
  15. While, were he dying (as the words abounded)
  16. A triple-bodied Geruon the Second,
  17. Plenty above — for loads below I count not —
  18. Of earth a three-share cloak he’d boast of taking,