Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  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.