Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. And popular cries
  2. Of a curse on thy head?
  3. Off thou hast thrown him, off hast cut
  4. The man from the city: but —
  5. Off from the city thyself shalt be
  6. Cut — to the citizens
  7. A hate immense!
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Now, indeed, thou adjudgest exile to me,
  2. And citizens’ hate, and to have popular curses:
  3. Nothing of this against the man here bringing,
  4. Who, no more awe-checked than as ’t were a beast’s fate, —
  5. With sheep abundant in the well-fleeced graze-flocks, —
  6. Sacrificed his child, — dearest fruit of travail
  7. To me, — as song-spell against Threkian blowings.
  8. Not him did it behove thee hence to banish
  9. — Pollution’s penalty? But hearing mzy deeds
  10. Justicer rough thou art! Now, this I tell thee:
  11. To threaten thus — me, one prepared to have thee
  12. (On like conditions, thy hand conquering) o’er me
  13. Rule: but if God the opposite ordain us,