Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Ah, fate of the clear-voiced nightingale! The gods clothed her in a winged form and gave to her a sweet life without tears[*](The wailing (l. 1144) of the bird is unconscious (Schol.).). But for me waits destruction by the two-edged sword.