This now at one moment bodes ill, while then again hope, shining with kindly light from the sacrifices, wards off the biting care of the sorrow that gnaws my heart. For you have destroyed me—and utterly—this second time.37. 8. The further expression of their forebodings is checked by the desperate hope that since divine forces sometimes clash, the evil destiny of Agamemnon may yet be averted by a superior fate, which they dimly apprehend will ordain his deliverance from the consequences of his shedding the blood of Iphigenia. Menelaus, Paris, Deiphobus. [542] It was then a pleasing malady from which you suffered. CLYTAEMESTRA As I walk upon these purple vestments may I not be struck from afar by any glance of the gods' jealous eye. CHORUS Suppliant Women, 4 - 6. The faint whir of the buzzing gnat often waked me from dreams in which I beheld more disasters to you than the time of sleep could have compassed. But come, let us take counsel together if there is perhaps some safe plan of action. Do as she bids and leave your seat in the car. Lodged within its halls they chant their chant, the primal sin; and, each in turn, they spurn with loathing a brother's bed, for they bitterly spurn the one who defiled it.42 Have I missed the mark, or, like a true archer, do I strike my quarry? For Menelaus, indeed; first and foremost expect him to return. [546] Longed so, that often from a darkly brooding spirit I have sighed. [1370] 12. CHORUS [737] At first, I would say, there came to Ilium the spirit of unruffled calm, a delicate ornament of wealth, a darter of soft glances from the eye, love's flower that stings the heart. AEGISTHUS But who, unless he is a god, is free from suffering all his days? Aeschylus, Agamemnon 855-860 “Citizens, this elder pride of Argives, I will feel not shame at revealing my spousal love to you. CLYTAEMESTRA And fallen there, thus do I repay you. Truly in those days strife, an affliction that has subdued its lord, dwelt in the house. Soon it will be done. [598] So now why should you rehearse to me the account at length? This is the contest of an ancient feud, pondered by me of old, and it has come, however long delayed. Even these are many to reap, a wretched harvest. The pair has met no undeserved fate. [503] All hail, soil of Argos, land of my fathers! For he is no slight shield of confidence to me. . The Chorus warns that there will be further evil. What! The suppressed thought is that remedies, if applied at the right time, may save the body. No, it is a snare that shares his bed, that shares the guilt of murder. Our labor's past; past for the dead so that they will never care even to wake to life again. And soon you, yourself present here, shall with great pity pronounce me all too true a prophetess. But should this trouble prove enough, we will accept it, sorely battered as we are by the heavy hand of fate. She has caught him in the robe and gores him with the crafty device of her black horn! [1617] You speak like that, you who sit at the lower oar when those upon the higher bench control the ship?51 Old as you are, you shall learn how bitter it is at your age to be schooled when prudence is the lesson set before you. CHORUS [1310] And what of that? [543] How so? for my master's coming home—yes, my master, for I must bear the yoke of slavery. No god listens to his prayers. I stand where I dealt the blow; my purpose is achieved. 11. [1088] To that of Atreus' sons. [1207] Did you in due course come to the rite of marriage? I will waste no more words upon her to be insulted thus. He sits apart in the anguish of his grief, silent, dishonored but making no reproach. CASSANDRA Quick! For wretched delusion, counsellor of ill, primal source of woe, makes mortals bold. For all the gods our city worships, the gods supreme, the gods below, the gods of the heavens and of the marketplace, have their altars ablaze with offerings. [1368] 11. I speak no lies. She has been featured by NPR and National Geographic for her ancient history expertise. CASSANDRA With purple let his path be strewn, that Justice may usher him into a home he never hoped to see. And why do you mold to melody these terrors with dismal cries blended with piercing strains? AEGISTHUS. [269] I said that Troy is in the hands of the Achaeans. AEGISTHUS Upon the neck of Troy he has cast such a yoke. The chorus says it has been anxious for the return. Vestments enough I would have devoted to be trampled underfoot had it been so ordered in the seat of oracles when I was devising a ransom for your life. [1304] Yet surely to die nobly is a blessing for mortals. But in a long time only one or two mi…, “So, while life remains to us, let’s make it so that death discovers as little as possible to destroy.” In course of time you shall learn by enquiry who of your people has been an honest, and who an unfitting guardian of the State. CASSANDRA 16. For to win safe passage home they need to travel back the other length of their double course. CHORUS Apollôn is here derived from Apollumi, “destroy” -- nomen omen. [1401] You are testing me as if I were a witless woman. And I will make an overture with a dance upon my own account; for my lord's lucky roll I shall count to my own score, now that this beacon has thrown me triple six. And help39 stands far away! A priest of ruin, by order of a god, it was reared in the house. [338] Now if they keep clear of guilt towards the gods of the town—those of the conquered land—and towards their shrines, the captors shall not be made captives in their turn. Aegisthus says he can die now that he has obtained revenge. [1295] O woman, pitiful exceedingly and exceeding wise, long has been your speech. WATCHMAN To destruction with you! CLYTAEMESTRA CLYTAEMESTRA AGAMEMNON Harsh, it seems to me, is the grace of gods enthroned upon their awful seats. His attire bears evidence of dust and mud. Then, swerving from her course, she brought her marriage to a bitter end, sped on to the children of Priam under escort of Zeus, the warder of host and guest, ruining her sojourn and her companions, a vengeful Fury who brought tears to brides. [1074] Wherefore your cry of “woe” in Loxias' name? Loeb Classical Library Volumes 145 & 146. Now he has come home, our king, Atreus' elder son, a man of happy fate, worthy of honor beyond all living men. Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. These were Aegisthus' brothers. [1247] To words propitious, miserable girl, lull your speech. “Endless numbers of us might become leaders [1107] Ah, damned woman, will you do this thing? CHORUS Why does my song, unbidden and unfed, chant strains of augury? Beneath blasts from Thrace ship dashed against ship; and they, gored violently by the furious hurricane and rush of pelting rain, were swept out of sight by the whirling gust of an evil shepherd.19 But when the radiant light of the sun rose we beheld the Aegean flowering with corpses of Achaean men and wreckage of ships. CHORUS For us, the remnant of the Argive host, the gain has the advantage and the loss does not bear down the scale; so that, as we speed over land and sea, it is fitting that we on this bright day make this boast:17 “The Argive army, having taken Troy at last, has nailed up these spoils to be a glory for the gods throughout Hellas in their shrines from days of old.” Whoever hears the story of these deeds must extol the city and the leaders of her host; and the grace of Zeus that brought them to accomplishment shall receive its due measure of gratitude. 1. (A FOURTH ELDER) 12. CHORUS CHORUS 3. For what joy is sweeter in a woman's eyes than to unbar the gates for her husband when God has spared him to return from war? The Chorus of Elders will not credit the tidings; nor are their doubts resolved until a herald announced the approach of Agamemnon, whose ship had alone escaped the storm that had raged in the night just passed. [281] Hephaestus, from Ida speeding forth his brilliant blaze. Ah me, ah me! HERALD CLYTAEMESTRA 23. [1364] 9. Of this corrupt passage no emendation yet made commends itself irresistibly. [1530] Bereft of any ready expedient of thought, I am bewildered where to turn now that the house is tottering. [539] I do rejoice. Then there were some who chided me and said: “Are you so convinced by beacon-fires as to think that Troy has now been sacked? But grown to manhood, justice has brought me back again. Yet they provided no remedy to save the city from suffering even as it has; and I, my soul on fire, must soon fall to the ground. [1333] It is the nature of all human kind to be unsatisfied with prosperity. [1055] I have no time to waste with this woman here outside; for already the victims stand by the central hearth awaiting the sacrifice—a joy we never expected to be ours. [1213] And yet to us at least the prophecies you utter seem true enough. CASSANDRA I will no longer refuse to die, if that pleases the gods. I am struck deep with a mortal blow! By your hands down he fell, down to death, and down below shall we bury him—but not with wailings from his household. Of the 76 plays he is known to have written only seven survive--1. Sing the song of woe, the song of woe, but may the good prevail! [The members of the Chorus deliver their opinion on the course to be taken.]. By confusion of the symbol and the thing signified, domos is boldly said to “sink its hull.” [1266] You at least I will destroy before I die myself. Where all goes well, we must take counsel so that it may long endure; but whenever there is need of healing remedy, we will by kind appliance of cautery or the knife endeavor to avert the mischief of the disease. (ANOTHER ELDER) These are my woman's words; but may the good prevail clearly for all to see! [549] How so? Thus have I done the deed; deny it I will not. 25. AGAMEMNON 29. But to the home of each come urns and ashes,12 not living men. [1672] Do no care for their idle yelpings. This door I greet as the gates of Death. [931] Come now, tell me this, in accordance with your mind. [40] This is now the tenth year since Priam's mighty adversary, king Menelaus, and with him king Agamemnon, the mighty pair of Atreus' sons, joined in honor of throne and sceptre by Zeus, set forth from this land with an army of a thousand ships manned by Argives, a warrior force to champion their cause. Woe, woe! Translated by Smyth, Herbert Weir. By the bold and running use of metaphor he will amplify and give us, not the thing itself, but the reverberation and reflection which, taken into his mind, the thing has made; close enough to the original to illustrate it, remote enough to heighten, enlarge, and make splendid. as the first tragedy in the only surviving trilogy of ancient Greek plays. AEGISTHUS Our misfortunes should, in my opinion, bid us a long farewell. There is controversy about the performance dates for the Greek tragedies and the components of Greek tragedy. [763] But an old Hubris tends to bring forth in evil men, sooner or later, at the fated hour of birth, a young Hubris and that irresistible, unconquerable, unholy spirit, Recklessness, and for the household black Curses, which resemble their parents. Heracles, because of his murder of Iphitus, was sold as a slave to Omphale, queen of Lydia. Within the town there sounds loud, I believe, a clamor of voices which will not blend. The Chorus tells her to do so, too. Suppliant Women, 4 - 6. So then he hardened his heart to sacrifice his daughter so that he might further a war waged to avenge a woman, and as an offering for the voyage of a fleet! [773] But Righteousness shines in smoke-begrimed dwellings and esteems the virtuous man. CHORUS [975] Why does this terror so persistently hover standing before my prophetic soul? WATCHMAN CASSANDRA To lie in this spider's web, breathing forth your life in an impious death! The trace-horse bore no collar, and was harnessed by the side of the pair under the yoke. [1431] Listen then to this too, this the righteous sanction on my oath: by Justice, exacted for my child, by Ate, by the Avenging Spirit, to whom I sacrificed that man, hope does not tread for me the halls of fear, so long as the fire upon my hearth is kindled by Aegisthus, loyal in heart to me as in days gone by.

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