Eumenides

Aeschylus

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

  1. O mother Night, hear me, mother who gave birth to me as a retribution for the blind and the seeing. For Leto’s son dishonors me
  2. by snatching away this cowering wretch, a proper expiation for his mother’s blood.
Chorus
  1. This is our song over the sacrificial victim—frenzied,