Supplices

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.

  1. You have not spoken falsely about our clothing. But, for my part, how am I to address you? As commoner, as spokesman, bearer of the sacred wand,[*](Apparently a periphrasis for herald; but the Greek text is uncertain.)or as ruler of the realm?
King
  1. As for that, answer and speak to me with confidence.