Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  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!
CHOROS.
  1. Woman, thou, — of him coming new from battle
  2. Houseguard — thy husband’s bed the while disgracing, —
  3. For the Army-leader didst thou plan this fate too?
AIGISTHOS.
  1. These words too are of groans the prime-begetters!
  2. Truly a tongue opposed to Orpheus hast thou:
  3. Foi he led all things by his voice’s grace-charm,
  4. But thou, upstirring them by these wild yelpings,
  5. Wilt lead them! Forced, thou wilt appear the tamer!
CHOROS.
  1. So — thou shalt be my king then of the Argeians —
  2. Who, not when for this man his fate thou plannedst,
  3. Daredst to do this deed — thyself the slayer!
AIGISTHOS.
  1. For, to deceive him was the wife’s part, certes: