Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Who of citizens justly, and who not to purpose, the city conducted.
AGAMEMNON.
  1. First, indeed, Argos, and the gods, the local,
  2. ’T is right addressing — those with me the partners
  3. In this return and right things done the city
  4. Of Priamos: gods who, from no tongue hearing
  5. The rights o’ the cause, for Ilion’s fate man-slaught’rous
  6. Into the bloody vase, not oscillating,
  7. Put the vote-pebbles, while, o’ the rival vessel,