Eumenides

Aeschylus

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

  1. For I have chosen the overthrow of houses,
  2. whenever violence raised in the home seizes someone near and dear. Speeding after this man, we weaken him, even though he is strong, because of the fresh blood.
Chorus
  1. And men’s thoughts, very proud under the sky, waste away and dwindle in dishonor beneath the earth,