Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. 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!