Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Vowed’st thou to the gods, in fear, to act thus?
AGAMEMNON.
  1. If any, I well knew resolve I outspoke.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. What think’st thou Priamos had done, thus victor?
AGAMEMNON.
  1. On varied vests — I do think — he had passaged.
KLUTAIMNESTRA
  1. Then, do not, struck with awe at human censure ....
AGAMEMNON.
  1. Well, popular mob-outcry much avails too.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Ay, but the unenvied is not the much valued.
AGAMEMNON.
  1. Sure, ’t is no woman’s part to long for battle.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Why, to the prosperous, even suits a beating.
AGAMEMNON.
  1. What? thou this beating us in war dost prize too?
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Persuade thee! power, for once, grant me — and willing!
AGAMEMNON.
  1. But if this seem so to thee — shoes, let someone
  2. Loose under, quick — foot’s serviceable carriage!
  3. And me, on these sea-products walking, may no
  4. Grudge from a distance, from the god’s eye, strike at!
  5. For great shame were my strewment-spoiling — riches
  6. Spoiling with feet, and silver-purchased textures!
  7. Of these things, thus then. But this female-stranger
  8. Tenderly take inside! Who conquers mildly
  9. God, from afar, benignantly regardeth.