Eumenides

Aeschylus

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

  1. I can feel the cruel, the very cruel chill of the executioner’s destroying scourge.
Chorus
  1. They do such things, the younger gods, who rule, wholly beyond justice, a throne dripping blood,
  2. about its foot, about its head. I can see the center-stone of the earth defiled with a terrible pollution of blood.