Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. holding no seer at fault, bending to the adverse blasts of fortune, when the Achaean folk, on the shore over against Chalcis
  2. in the region where Aulis’ tides surge to and fro, were very distressed by opposing winds and failing stores.
Chorus
  1. The breezes that blew from the Strymon, bringing harmful leisure, hunger, and tribulation of spirit in a cruel port, idle wandering of men, and sparing neither ship