Libation Bearers

Aeschylus

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

  1. O Persephone, grant us indeed a glorious victory!
Orestes
  1. Father, remember the bath where you were robbed of life.
Electra
  1. And remember how they devised a strange net to cast about you.
Orestes
  1. You were caught, my father, in fetters forged by no smith’s hand.
Electra
  1. And in a fabric shamefully devised.