Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Speak good words, O unhappy! Set mouth sleeping!
KASSANDRA.
  1. But Paian stands in no stead to the speech here.
CHOROS.
  1. Nay, if the thing be near: but never be it!
KASSANDRA.
  1. Thou, indeed, prayest: they to kill are busy.
CHOROS.
  1. Of what man is it ministered, this sorrow?
KASSANDRA.
  1. There again, wide thou look’st of my foretellings.
CHOROS.
  1. For, the fulfiller’s scheme I have not gone with.
KASSANDRA.
  1. And yet too well I know the speech Hellenic.