Libation Bearers

Aeschylus

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

  1. That is open to conjecture—anyone may guess.
Chorus
  1. How then? Let my age be taught by your youth.
Electra
  1. There is no one who could have cut it but myself.
Chorus
  1. Yes, for those who ought to have mourned with a lock of hair are enemies.
Electra
  1. And further, in appearance it is very much like—