Who, being mortal, would not prayWith an unmischievousDaimon to have been born — who would not, hearing thus? AGAMEMNON.Ah me! I am struck — a right-aimed stroke within me!CHOROS.Silence! Who is it shouts stroke — right-aimedly a wounded one?AGAMEMNON.Ah me! indeed again, — a second, struck by!CHOROS.This work seems to me completed by this Ah me of the king’s;But we somehow may together share in solid counsellings.CHOROS 1.I, in the first place, my opinion tell you:— To cite the townsmen, by help-cry, to house here.CHOROS 2.To me, it seems we ought to fall upon themAt quickest — prove the fact by sword fresh-flowing!CHOROS 3.And I, of such opinion the partaker,Vote — to do something: not to wait — the main point!CHOROS 4.’T is plain to see: for they prelude as though ofA tyranny the signs they gave the city.