Eumenides

Aeschylus

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

  1. they have no great freedom.
Chorus
  1. This is our song over the sacrificial victim—frenzied, maddened, destroying the mind,the Furies’ hymn,
  2. a spell to bind the soul, not tuned to the lyre, withering the life of mortals.