Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. One popular wound that happens to the city,
  2. And many sacrificed from many households —
  3. Men, scourged by that two-thonged whip Ares loves so,
  4. Double spear-headed curse, bloody yoke-couple, —
  5. Of woes like these, doubtless, whoe’er comes weighted,
  6. Him does it suit to sing the Erinues’ paian.
  7. But who, of matters saved a glad-news-bringer,
  8. Comes to a city in good estate rejoicing. ...
  9. How shall I mix good things with evil, telling
  10. Of storm against the Achaioi, urged by gods’ wrath?
  11. For they swore league, being arch-foes before that,
  12. Fire and the sea: and plighted troth approved they,
  13. Destroying the unhappy Argeian army.
  14. At night began the bad-wave-outbreak evils;
  15. For, ships against each other Threkian breezes
  16. Shattered: and these, butted at in a fury