Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Why, ’t is unbearable: but to die is better:
  2. For death than tyranny is the riper finish!
CHOROS 10.
  1. What, by the testifying Ah me of him,
  2. Shall we prognosticate the man as perished?
CHOROS 11.
  1. We must quite know ere speak these things concerning:
  2. For to conjecture and quite know are two things.
CHOROS 12.
  1. This same to praise I from all sides abound in —
  2. Clearly to know — Atreides, what he’s doing!