Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. 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,