Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. I have the power to proclaim the augury of triumph given on their way
  2. to princely men—since my age[*](σύμφυτος αἰών, literally life that has grown with me,time of life, here old age, as the Scholiast takes it; cf. Mrs. Barbauld, Life. We’ve been long together.)still breathes Persuasion upon me from the gods, the strength of song—how the twin-throned command of the Achaeans,
  3. the single-minded captains of Hellas’ youth, with avenging spear and arm against the Teucrian land, was sent off by the inspiring omen appearing to the kings of the ships—kingly birds,