Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Ere ye suffer! It behoved one do these things just as we did:
  2. And if of these troubles there should be enough — we may assent
  3. — By the Daimon’s heavy heel unfortunately stricken ones!
  4. So a woman’s counsel hath it — if one judge it learning-worth.
AIGISTHOS.
  1. But to think that these at me the idle tongue should thus o’erbloom,
  2. And throw out such words — the Daimon’s power experimenting on —
  3. And, of modest knowledge missing, — me, the ruler, . . .
CHOROS.
  1. Ne’er may this befall Argeians — wicked man to fawn before!