Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Have I missed aught, or hit I like a bowman?
  2. False prophet am I, — knock at doors, a babbler?
  3. Henceforward witness, swearing now, I know not
  4. By other’s word the old sins of this household!
CHOROS.
  1. And how should oath, bond honourably binding,
  2. Become thy cure? No less I wonder at thee
  3. — That thou, beyond sea reared, a strange-tongued city
  4. Shouldst hit in speaking, just as if thou stood’st by!
KASSANDRA.
  1. Prophet Apollon put me in this office.
CHOROS.
  1. What, even though a god, with longing smitten?
KASSANDRA.
  1. At first, indeed, shame was to me to say this.
CHOROS.
  1. For, more relaxed grows everyone who fares well.
KASSANDRA.
  1. But he was athlete to me — huge grace breathing!
CHOROS.
  1. Well, to the work of children, went ye law’s way?
KASSANDRA.
  1. Having consented, I played false to Loxias.
CHOROS.
  1. Already when the wits inspired possessed of?
KASSANDRA.
  1. Already townsmen all their woes I foretold.
CHOROS.
  1. How wast thou then unhurt by Loxias’ anger?
KASSANDRA.
  1. I no one aught persuaded, when I sinned thus.
CHOROS.
  1. To us, at least, now sooth to say thou seemest.