Supplices

Aeschylus

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

  1. defiling its roof?[*](By a sudden shift of metaphor, the eye of Zeus is likened to a foul bird whose pollution of the roof is an evil omen to the inmates of the house.)For he sits heavily upon it. They take reverent heed of their kin, petitioners of holy Zeus; therefore with pure
  2. altars shall they please the gods.