Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. hard to be drive away. Lodged within its halls they chant their chant, the primal sin; and, each in turn, they spurn with loathing a brother’s bed, for they bitterly spurn the one who defiled it.[*](Thyestes’ corruption of Aerope, wife of his brother Atreus.)Have I missed the mark, or, like a true archer, do I strike my quarry?
  2. Or am I prophet of lies, a door-to-door babbler? Bear witness upon your oath that I know the deeds of sin, ancient in story, of this house.
Chorus
  1. How could an oath, a pledge although given in honor, effect any cure? Yet I marvel at you that,