Eumenides

Aeschylus

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

  1. Oh! Child of Zeus, you have become a thief—
  2. you, a youth, have ridden down old divinities—by showing respect to your suppliant, a godless man and cruel to a parent; although you are a god, you have stolen away a man that killed his mother. What is there here that anyone shall call just?
Chorus
  1. Reproach, coming to me in a dream, struck me like a charioteer with goad held tight, under my heart, under my vitals.