Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Woe, woe, woe! O Apollo, O Apollo!
Chorus
  1. Once more with ill-omened words she cries to the god who should not be present at times of lamentation.
Cassandra
  1. Apollo, Apollo! God of the Ways,[*](Cassandra sees an image of Apollo, the protector on journeys, close to the door leading to the street (ἀγυιά).)my destroyer! For you have destroyed me—and utterly—this second time.[*](Ἀπόλλων is here derived from Ἀπόλλυμι, destroy—nomen omen. The god had destroyed her the first time in making vain his gift of prophecy (1209 ff.); whereby she became the object of derision in Troy.)