Eumenides

Aeschylus

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

  1. and whose righteous visitations press heavily at every season, most honored everywhere among the gods!
Athena
  1. I am glad that they are zealously accomplishing these things for my land;
  2. and I am grateful to Persuasion, that her glance kept watch over my tongue and mouth, when I encountered their fierce refusal. But Zeus of the assembly has prevailed.[*](Zeus presides over the assemblies of citizens and directs the speech of public men.) Our rivalry