Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Doth Something vaunt!
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Now, of a truth, hast thou set upright
  2. Thy mouth’s opinion, —
  3. Naming the Sprite,
  4. The triply gross,
  5. O’er the race that has dominion:
  6. For through him it is that Eros
  7. The carnage-licker
  8. In the belly is bred: ere ended quite
  9. Is the elder throe — new ichor!
CHOROS.
  1. Certainly, great of might
  2. And heavy of wrath, the Sprite
  3. Thou tellest of, in the palace
  4. (Woe, woe!)
  5. — An evil tale of a fate
  6. By Até’s malice
  7. Rendered insatiate!
  1. Oh, oh, —
  2. King, king, how shall I beweep thee?
  3. From friendly soul whatever say?