Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. To the race: and then, ’ware of the deed ill-omened,
  2. He shrieked O! — falls back, vomiting, from the carnage,
  3. And fate on the Pelopidai past bearing
  4. He prays down — putting in his curse together
  5. The kicking down o’ the feast — that so might perish
  6. The race of Pleisthenes entire: and thence is
  7. That it is given thee to see this man prostrate.
  8. And I was rightly of this slaughter stitch-man:
  9. Since me, — being third from ten, — with my poor father
  10. He drives out — being then a babe in swathe-bands:
  11. But, grown up, back again has justice brought me:
  12. And of this man I got hold — being without-doors —
  13. Fitting together the whole scheme of ill-will.
  14. So, sweet, in fine, even to die were to me,
  15. Seeing, as I have, this man i’ the toils of justice!
CHOROS.
  1. Aigisthos, arrogance in ills I love not.
  2. Dost thou say — willing, thou didst kill the man here,
  3. And, alone, plot this lamentable slaughter?
  4. I say — thy head in justice will escape not
  5. The people’s throwing — know that! — stones and curses!