Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. has sung her last lament in death, lies here, his beloved; but to me she has brought for my bed an added relish of delight.
Chorus
  1. Alas! Ah that some fate, free from excess of suffering, nor yet with lingering bed of pain,
  2. might come full soon and bring to us everlasting and endless sleep, now that our most gracious guardian has been laid low, who in a woman’s cause had much endured and by a woman’s hand has lost his life.