Libation Bearers

Aeschylus

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

  1. Go, deliver your message! Do what you are asked to do!
  2. The gods take care of what they take care of.
Nurse
  1. Well, I will go and do your bidding. With the gods’ blessing may everything turn out for the best! Exit
Chorus
  1. Now at my supplication, O Zeus, father of the Olympian gods, grant that the fortunes of our house be firmly established,
  2. so that those who rightly desire the rule of order may behold it. Every word of mine has been uttered in justice. O Zeus, may you safeguard it!