Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  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
  8. To pay him back the bringing me, with slaughter.
  9. Why keep I then these things to make me laughed at,
  10. Both wands and, round my neck, oracular fillets?
  11. Thee, at least, ere my own fate will I ruin:
  12. Go, to perdition falling! Boons exchange we —
  13. Some other Até in my stead make wealthy!
  14. See there — himself, Apollon stripping from me
  15. The oracular garment! having looked upon me
  16. — Even in these adornments, laughed by friends at,
  17. As good as foes, i’ the balance weighed: and vainly —
  18. For, called crazed stroller, — as I had been gipsy,
  19. Beggar, unhappy, starved to death, — I bore it.