Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Your fame to read the future had reached our ears; but we have no need of prophets here.
Cassandra
  1. Alas, what can she be planning[*](A play on the name Κλυταιμήστρα(μήδομαι).)? What is this fresh woe she contrives here within, what monstrous, monstrous horror, beyond love’s enduring, beyond all remedy? And help[*](Menelaus (cp. l. 674) or Orestes.)stands far away!
Chorus
  1. These prophesyings pass my comprehension; but those I understood—the whole city rings with them.