Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Thou shalt learn — late taught, certes — to be modest.
CHOROS.
  1. Greatly-intending thou art:
  2. Much-mindful, too, hast thou cried
  3. (Since thy mind, with its slaughter-outpouring part,
  4. Is frantic) that over the eyes, a patch
  5. Of blood — with blood to match —
  6. Is plain for a pride!
  7. Yet still, bereft of friends, thy fate
  8. Is — blow with blow to expiate!
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. And this thou hearest — of my oaths, just warrant!
  2. By who fulfilled things for my daughter, Justice,
  3. Até, Erinus, — by whose help I slew him, —
  4. Not mine the fancy — Fear will tread my palace
  5. So long as on my hearth there burns a fire,
  6. Aigisthos as before well-caring for me;
  7. Since he to me is shield, no small, of boldness.
  8. Here does he lie — outrager of this female,
  9. Dainty of all the Chruseids under Ilion;
  10. And she — the captive, the soothsayer also
  11. And couchmate of this man, oracle-speaker,