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
  16. Who has brought life to end in loved well-being.
  17. If all things I might manage thus — brave man, I!
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Come now, this say, nor feign a feeling to me!
AGAMEMNON.
  1. With feeling, know indeed, I do not tamper!