Agamemnon
Aeschylus
Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.
- I tell you in the hour of justice that you yourself, be sure of that, will not escape the people’s curses and death by stoning at their hand.
- You speak like that, you who sit at the lower oar when those upon the higher bench control the ship?[*](In a bireme, the rowers on the lower tier were called θαλαμῖται ; those on the upper tier, ζευγῖται.)Old as you are, you shall learn how bitter it is