Agamemnon

Aeschylus

Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.

  1. Such as friends cannot bear, cannot cure it: and still
  2. Off stands all Resistance
  3. Afar in the distance!
CHOROS.
  1. Of these I witless am — these prophesyings.
  2. But those I knew: for the whole city bruits them.
KASSANDRA.
  1. Ah, unhappy one, this thou consummatest?
  2. Thy husband, thy bed’s common guest,
  3. In the bath having brightened. .. How shall I declare
  4. Consummation? It soon will be there:
  5. For hand after hand she outstretches,
  6. At life as she reaches!
CHOROS.
  1. Nor yet I’ve gone with thee! for — after riddles —
  2. Now, in blind oracles, I feel resourceless.
KASSANDRA.
  1. Eh, eh, papai, papai,
  2. What this, I espy?
  3. Some net of Haides undoubtedly
  4. Nay, rather, the snare
  5. Is she who has share
  6. In his bed, who takes part in the murder there!
  7. But may a revolt —