Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. rose the storm by the wrath of the gods upon the naval host and passed away?
Herald
  1. An auspicious day one should not mar with a tale of misfortune—the honor due to the gods keeps them apart.[*](To the Olympian gods belong tales of good, to the Erinyes (l. 645) belong tales of misfortune. Some interpret the passage to mean that the honour due to the gods is to be kept apart from pollution through the recital of ills.)When a messenger with gloomy countenance reports to a people dire disaster of its army’s rout—
  2. one common wound inflicted on the State, while from many a home many a victim is devoted to death by the two-handled whip beloved of Ares, destruction double-armed, a gory pair—when, I say, he is packed with woes like this,