Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Truly you scorn my understanding as if it were a child’s.
Chorus
  1. But at what time was the city destroyed?
Clytaemestra
  1. In the night, I say, that has but now given birth to this day here.