Agamemnon
Aeschylus
Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.
- Ere ye suffer! It behoved one do these things just as we did:
- And if of these troubles there should be enough — we may assent
- — By the Daimon’s heavy heel unfortunately stricken ones!
- So a woman’s counsel hath it — if one judge it learning-worth.
- But to think that these at me the idle tongue should thus o’erbloom,
- And throw out such words — the Daimon’s power experimenting on —
- And, of modest knowledge missing, — me, the ruler, . . .
- Ne’er may this befall Argeians — wicked man to fawn before!