Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Thoroughly, I am fain — if twice thou tell them.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Troia do the Achaioi hold, this same day.
  2. I think a noise — no mixture — reigns i’ the city.
  3. Sour wine and unguent pour thou in one vessel —
  4. Standers-apart, not lovers, wouldst thou style them:
  5. And so, of captives and of conquerors, partwise
  6. The voices are to hear, of fortune diverse.
  7. For those, indeed, upon the bodies prostrate
  8. Of husbands, brothers, children upon parents
  9. — The old men, from a throat that ’s free no longer,
  10. Shriekingly wail the death-doom of their dearest:
  11. While these — the after-battle hungry labour,
  12. Which prompts night-faring, marshals them to breakfast
  13. On the town’s store, according to no billet
  14. Of sharing, but as each drew lot of fortune.
  15. In the spear-captured Troic habitations
  16. House they already: from the frosts upmethral
  17. And dews delivered, will they, luckless creatures,
  18. Without a watch to keep, slumber all night through.
  19. And if they fear the gods, the city-guarders,