Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Keep the bull from the cow!
  2. In the vesture she catching him, strikes him now
  3. With the black-horned trick,
  4. And he falls in the watery vase!
  5. Of the craft-killing cauldron I tell thee the case!
CHOROS.
  1. I would not boast to be a topping critic
  2. Of oracles: but to some sort of evil
  3. I liken these. From oracles, what good speech