Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. And the whole land’s seed thoroughly has perished.
  2. And such a yoke-strap having cast round Troia,
  3. The elder king Atreides, happy man — he
  4. Comes to be honoured, worthiest of what mortals
  5. Now are. Nor Paris nor the accomplice-city
  6. Outvaunts their deed as more than they are done-by:
  7. For, in a suit for rape and theft found guilty,
  8. He missed of plunder and, in one destruction,
  9. Fatherland, house and home has mowed to atoms:
  10. Debts the Priamidai have paid twice over.
CHOROS.
  1. Hail, herald from the army of Achaians!
HERALD.
  1. I hail: — to die, will gainsay gods no longer!
CHOROS.
  1. Love of this fatherland did exercise thee?
HERALD.
  1. So that I weep, at least, with joy, my eyes full.
CHOROS.
  1. What, of this gracious sickness were ye gainers?
HERALD.
  1. How now? instructed, I this speech shall master.