Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Well-being forces off, aroints
  2. From roofs whereat a finger points,
  3. No more come in! exclaiming. This man, too,
  4. To take the city of Priamos did the celestials give,
  5. And, honoured by the god, he homeward comes;
  6. But now if, of the former, he shall pay
  7. The blood back, and, for those who ceased to live,
  8. Dying, for deaths in turn new punishment he dooms—
  9. Who, being mortal, would not pray
  10. With an unmischievous
  11. Daimon to have been born — who would not, hearing thus?
AGAMEMNON.
  1. Ah me! I am struck — a right-aimed stroke within me!
CHOROS.
  1. Silence! Who is it shouts stroke — right-aimedly a wounded one?
AGAMEMNON.
  1. Ah me! indeed again, — a second, struck by!
CHOROS.
  1. This work seems to me completed by this Ah me of the king’s;
  2. But we somehow may together share in solid counsellings.
CHOROS 1.
  1. I, in the first place, my opinion tell you:
  2. — To cite the townsmen, by help-cry, to house here.
CHOROS 2.
  1. To me, it seems we ought to fall upon them
  2. At quickest — prove the fact by sword fresh-flowing!