Libation Bearers

Aeschylus

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

  1. I tell you the dead are killing the living.[*](The Greek admits either meaning: the dead are killing the living man or the living man is killing the dead.)
Clytaemestra
  1. Ah! Indeed I grasp the meaning of the riddle. We are to perish by treachery, just as we committed murder. Someone give me a battle-axe, and quickly! Let us know if we are victors or vanquished:
  2. for I have even come to this in this wretched business. Exit Servant. The door is opened and the corpse of Aegisthus is discovered. Nearby stands Orestes, and at a distance Pylades
Orestes
  1. It is you I seek. He over there has had enough.
Clytaemestra
  1. Oh no! My beloved, valiant Aegisthus! You are dead!