Eumenides

Aeschylus

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

  1. will ask of another when hardship is to end or to decrease; and the poor wretch offers the vain consolation of uncertain remedies.
Chorus
  1. Do not let anyone who is struck by misfortune make an appeal
  2. and cry aloud this word, Justice! Thrones of the Furies! Perhaps some father, or mother, in new sorrow,