Agamemnon

Aeschylus

Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.

  1. Who, being mortal, would not pray
  2. With an unmischievous
  3. Daimon to have been born — who would not, hearing thus?
AGAMEMNON.
  1. Ah me! I am struck — a right-aimed stroke within me!
CHOROS.
  1. Silence! Who is it shouts stroke — right-aimedly a wounded one?
AGAMEMNON.
  1. Ah me! indeed again, — a second, struck by!
CHOROS.
  1. This work seems to me completed by this Ah me of the king’s;
  2. But we somehow may together share in solid counsellings.
CHOROS 1.
  1. I, in the first place, my opinion tell you:
  2. — To cite the townsmen, by help-cry, to house here.
CHOROS 2.
  1. To me, it seems we ought to fall upon them
  2. At quickest — prove the fact by sword fresh-flowing!
CHOROS 3.
  1. And I, of such opinion the partaker,
  2. Vote — to do something: not to wait — the main point!
CHOROS 4.
  1. ’T is plain to see: for they prelude as though of
  2. A tyranny the signs they gave the city.