Libation Bearers

Aeschylus

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

  1. What! Are you gladdened at heart by the present news?
Chorus
  1. Why not, if Zeus at last may cause our ill wind to change?
Nurse
  1. But how can that be? Orestes, the hope of our house, is gone.
Chorus
  1. Not yet; he would be a poor prophet who would so interpret.
Nurse
  1. What are you saying? Do you know something beyond what has been told?