Your fame to read the future had reached our ears; but we have no need of prophets here. CassandraAlas, what can she be planningA play on the name Κλυταιμήστρα(μήδομαι).? What is this fresh woe she contrives here within, what monstrous, monstrous horror, beyond love’s enduring, beyond all remedy? And helpMenelaus (cp. l. 674) or Orestes.stands far away! ChorusThese prophesyings pass my comprehension; but those I understood—the whole city rings with them.