Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Dispose things — justly (gods to aid!) appointed.
AGAMEMNON.
  1. Offspring of Leda, of my household warder,
  2. Suitably to my absence hast thou spoken,
  3. For long the speech thou didst outstretch! But aptly
  4. To praise — from others ought to go this favour.
  5. And for the rest, —-not me, in woman’s fashion,
  6. Mollify, nor — as mode of barbarous man is —
  7. To me gape forth a groundward-falling clamour!
  8. Nor, strewing it with garments, make my passage
  9. Envied! Gods, sure, with these behoves we honour:
  10. But, for a mortal on these varied beauties
  11. To walk — to me, indeed, is nowise fear-free.
  12. I say — as man, not god, to me do homage!
  13. Apart from foot-mats both and varied vestures,
  14. Renown is loud, and — not to lose one’s senses,
  15. God’s greatest gift. Behoves we him call happy