Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. unbearable grief is seen. Many things pierce the heart. Each knows whom he sent forth. But to the home of each come
  2. urns and ashes[*](This passage, in which war is compared to a gold-merchant, is charged with double meanings: ταλαντοῦχος, balance and scales of battle, πυρωθέν of purified gold-dust and of the burnt bodies of the slain, βαρύ, heavy and grievous, ἀντήνορος, the price of a man, and instead of men, λέβητας, jars and funeral urns.), not living men.