Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. You are not speaking of proud Syrian incense for the house.
Cassandra
  1. Nay, I will go to bewail also within the palace my own and Agamemnon’s fate. Enough of life!
  2. Alas, my friends, not with vain terror do I shrink, as a bird that fears a bush. After I am dead, bear witness for me of this—when for me, a woman, another woman shall be slain, and for an ill-wedded man another man shall fall.