Libation Bearers

Aeschylus

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

  1. that she sent these offerings, godless woman that she is.
Orestes
  1. And have you learned the nature of the dream so as to tell it properly?
Chorus
  1. She dreamed she gave birth to a serpent: that is her own account.
Orestes
  1. And where does the tale end, and what is its consummation?
Chorus
  1. She laid it to rest as if it were a child, in swaddling clothes.