Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Of Atreus, savage host,
  2. Pay the man here as price —
  3. A full-grown for the young one’s sacrifice.
CHOROS.
  1. That no cause, indeed, of this killing art thou,
  2. Who shall be witness-bearer?
  3. How shall he bear it — how?
  4. But the sire’s avenging-ghost might be in the deed a sharer.
  5. He is forced on and on