Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. And citizens’ hate, and to have popular curses:
  2. Nothing of this against the man here bringing,
  3. Who, no more awe-checked than as ’t were a beast’s fate, —
  4. With sheep abundant in the well-fleeced graze-flocks, —
  5. Sacrificed his child, — dearest fruit of travail
  6. To me, — as song-spell against Threkian blowings.
  7. Not him did it behove thee hence to banish
  8. — Pollution’s penalty? But hearing mzy deeds
  9. Justicer rough thou art! Now, this I tell thee:
  10. To threaten thus — me, one prepared to have thee
  11. (On like conditions, thy hand conquering) o’er me
  12. Rule: but if God the opposite ordain us,
  13. Thou shalt learn — late taught, certes — to be modest.
CHOROS.
  1. Greatly-intending thou art:
  2. Much-mindful, too, hast thou cried
  3. (Since thy mind, with its slaughter-outpouring part,