Libation Bearers

Aeschylus

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

  1. Our house has a cure to heal these woes, a cure not from outside, from the hands of others, but from itself, by fierce, bloody strife.
  2. This hymn is for the gods beneath the earth.
Chorus
  1. O you blessed powers below, hear this supplication of ours, and with a favorable will send forth to these children your aid for victory!
Orestes
  1. O father, who perished by a death unbefitting a king,
  2. grant in answer to my prayer the lordship over your halls!