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;
  4. At home, such wealth, king, we begin — by gods’ help —
  5. With having, and to lack, the household knows not.
  6. Of many garments had I vowed a treading
  7. (In oracles if fore-enjoined the household)
  8. Of this dear soul the safe-return-price scheming!
  9. For, root existing, foliage goes up houses,
  10. O’erspreading shadow against Seirios dog-star;
  11. And, thou returning to the hearth domestic,
  12. Warmth, yea, in winter dost thou show returning.
  13. And when, too, Zeus works, from the green-grape acrid,
  14. Vine — then, already, cool in houses cometh —
  15. The perfect man his home perambulating!