Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. He is borne away who bears away:
  2. And the killer has all to pay.
  3. And this remains while Zeus is remaining,
  4. The doer shall suffer in time — for, such his ordaining.
  5. Who may cast out of the House its cursed brood?
  6. The race is to Até glued!
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Thou hast gone into this oracle
  2. With a true result. For me, then, — I will
  3. — To the Daimon of the Pleisthenidai
  4. Making an oath — with all these things comply
  5. Hard as they are to bear. For the rest —
  6. Going from out this House, a guest,
  7. May he wear some other family
  8. To nought, with the deaths of kin by kin!
  9. And, — keeping a little part of my goods, —
  10. Wholly am I contented in
  11. Having expelled from the royal House
  12. These frenzied moods
  13. The mutually-murderous.
AIGISTHOS.
  1. O light propitious of day justice-bringing!