Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. first and foremost expect him to return. At least if some beam of the sun finds him alive and well, by the design of Zeus, who has not yet decided utterly to destroy the race, there is some hope that he will come home again.
  2. Hearing so much, be assured that you hear the truth. Exit
Chorus
  1. Who can have given a name so altogether true—was it some power invisible guiding his tongue aright by forecasting of destiny?—