Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. For, willing, no one wears a yoke that’s servile:
  2. And she, of many valuables, outpicked
  3. The flower, the army’s gift, myself has followed.
  4. So, — since to hear thee, I am brought about thus, —
  5. I go into the palace — purples treading.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. There is the sea — and what man shall exhaust it? —
  2. Feeding much purple’s worth-its-weight-in-silver
  3. Dye, ever fresh and fresh, our garments’ tincture;