Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. To Ilium, its purpose fulfilling,
  2. Wrath brought a marriage rightly named a mourning,[*](κῆδος has a double sense: marriage-alliance and sorrow.)exacting in later time requital for the dishonor done to hospitality and to Zeus, the partaker of the hearth,
  3. upon those who with loud voice celebrated the song in honor of the bride, even the bridegroom’s kin to whom it fell that day to raise the marriage-hymn.