Libation Bearers

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.

  1. O you gods, judge rightly the plea of right!
Chorus
  1. A shudder steals over me as I hear these prayers. Doom has long been waiting,
  2. but it will come in answer to those who pray.
Chorus
  1. Ah, inbred trouble and bloody stroke of ruin striking a discord! Ah, lamentable and grievous sorrows!
  2. Ah, the unstaunched pain!