Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Fitting together the whole scheme of ill-will.
  2. So, sweet, in fine, even to die were to me,
  3. 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!
AIGISTHOS.
  1. Thou such things soundest — seated at the lower
  2. Oarage to those who rule at the ship’s mid-bench?
  3. Thou shalt know, being old, how heavy is teaching
  4. To one of the like age — bidden be modest!
  5. But chains and old age and the pangs of fasting
  6. Stand out before all else in teaching, — prophets
  7. At souls’-cure! Dost not, seeing aught, see this too?
  8. Against goads kick not, lest tript-up thou suffer!