Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Although, O Lovely One, you are so gracious to the tender whelps of fierce lions, and take delight in the suckling young of every wild creature that roams the field, promise that the issue be brought to pass in accordance with these signs, portents
  2. auspicious yet filled with ill. And I implore Paean[*](Apollo; who is implored to divert his sister Artemis from accomplishing the evil part of the omen), the healer, that she may not raise adverse gales with long delay to stay the Danaan fleet from putting forth,
  3. by urging another sacrifice, one that knows no law, unsuited for feast, worker of family strife, dissolving wife’s reverence for husband. For there abides wrath—