Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. in the prelude of its life, kindly to children, and a delight to the old. Much did it get, held in arms like a nursling child, with its
  2. bright eye turned toward his hand, and fawning under compulsion of its belly’s need.
Chorus
  1. But brought to full growth by time it showed the nature it had from its parents. Unbidden, as payment for its fostering,