Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. one black, one white of tail, near the palace, on the spear-hand[*](The right hand.), in a conspicuous place, devouring a hare with offspring unborn
  2. caught in the last effort to escape.[*](The Scholiast, followed by Hermann and some others, takes λαγίναν γένναν as a periphrasis for λαγωόν, with which βλαβέντα agrees (cp. πᾶσα γέννα ... δώσων Eur. Tro. 531). With Hartung’s φέρματα, the meaning is the brood of a hare, the burden of her womb, thwarted of their final course. λοισθίων δρόμων, on this interpretation, has been thought to mean their final course (towards birth) or even their future racings.) Sing the song of woe, the song of woe, but may the good prevail!
Chorus
  1. Then the wise seer of the host, noticing how the two warlike sons of Atreus were two in temper, recognized the devourers of the hare as the leaders of the army, and