Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. when the shipborn army sped forth for Ilium.[*](The sense of the Greek passage (of which no entirely satisfactory emendation has been offered) is that so much time has passed since the fleet, under Agamemnon’s command, was detained at Aulis by the wrath of Artemis, that Calchas’ prophecy of evil, if true, would have been fulfilled long ago.)