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.
CHOROS.
  1. For Puthian oracles, thy speech, and hard too.
KASSANDRA
  1. Papai: what fire this! and it comes upon me!
  2. Ototoi, Lukeion Apollon, ah me — me!
  3. She, the two-footed lioness that sleeps with
  4. The wolf, in absence of the generous lion,
  5. Kills me the unhappy one: and as a poison
  6. Brewing, to put my price too in the anger,
  7. She vows, against her mate this weapon whetting