Agamemnon
Aeschylus
Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.
- I claim this favor from you now that my hour is come.
- Poor woman, I pity you for your death foretold.
- Yet once more I would like to speak, but not a dirge. I pray to the sun, in presence of his latest light, that my enemies[*](Of this corrupt passage no emendation yet made commends itself irresistibly. The translation is based on the reading ἐχθροὺς φόνευσιν τοὺς ἐμούς, where φόνευσιν is due to Bothe, the rest to J. Pearson.)may at the same time pay to my avengers a bloody penalty for