Eumenides

Aeschylus

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

  1. Herald, give the signal and restrain the crowd; and let the piercing Tyrrhenian[*](The Etruscans were regarded as the inventors of the trumpet.) trumpet, filled with human breath, send forth its shrill blare to the people!
  2. For while this council-hall is filling, it is good to be silent, and for my ordinances to be learned, by the whole city for everlasting time, and by these appellants, so that their case may be decided well.
Enter Apollo.
Chorus
  1. Lord Apollo, be master of what is yours.