Libation Bearers

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.

  1. My father has by now received the libations, which the earth has drunk.
  2. But take your share of this startling news.
Chorus
  1. Speak—but my heart is dancing with fear.
Electra
  1. I see here a lock cut as an offering for the tomb.
Chorus
  1. A man’s, or a deep-girt maid’s?