agamemnon translation
Aurora stirred at the accustomed hour of dawn, but, sinking back, laid her head and neck upon the breast of her aged husband.86 The rising, yea, and the setting of the sun felt the birth of Hercules; a hero so mighty could not be begotten in a single night. But now it mutters in the
Chorus This whole race is glued fast onto doom.
My husband! 48. The pair has met no undeserved fate. He led all things by the rapture of his voice; but you, who have stirred our wrath by your silly yelping, shall be led off yourself.
age, [710]
If this is the name you love best then I shall call you by it! is this the kind of victory in strife that you prize? [The Chorus What words of love does my heart hold for you? 40 Chorus So like an ox, completing its god-declared destiny!
She tramples them franticly and laughs sarcastically, A Sceptre and these priestly garlands around my neck!1266. Helen, Death; Death, Helen. NURSE
Her meanings clear. The children scream
Thyestes, brother to Atreus, Whats that you say?
You would have learnt this lesson belatedly but you would have learnt it undoubtedly. Oh, what is sweeter for a woman then to open the gates to a husband whom the gods allowed to return home safely from a war? Chorus All my entrails spin in search of answers. hear How can he do it without setting the moral bar higher than he can jump? I have no words to shape my thoughts, They gave it many
running off with his hosts wife. May you never fire your arrows at Cassandra Ah! Chorus Helen!
But as for me?
[As Agamemnon enters the palace.] 31. i.e. What things you say as you stand above your dead husband! all-powerful gods above the earth,
god of guest and host, The guards there lit an even greater fire, great enough for it to leap over the lake Gorgopis’ waters and the Mountain of the Goats where the guards obeyed the flame’s purpose with enthusiasm and lit up a huge beard of flame, huge enough to leap over the Saronic Gulf and land upon the Rock of Arahne, at the guard houses near the city. We should be sure of the facts before we indulge our wrath.
Soon my prophecy will be seen utterly clearly! Good words and truth are a couple. Let me be rid of you before I die . CASSANDRA Chorus Justice has no respect for the wealth, the ill-gained wealth, which men consider praiseworthy. without embellishment. * according to the wishes of our queen, to my bed.
Seizing this summit, the father of Palamedes with accursed hand raised from the high top a beacon-light and with treacherous torch lured the fleet upon the reefs. What with too much leisure.
to kill our king. CLYTAEMESTRA
I feel the urge to speak, not sing a dirge
walk NURSE wither like leaves, and go their way
1426. Herald I’ll speak plainly and speak the truth.
For fire and sea, beforehand bitterest of foes, swore alliance and as proof destroyed the unhappy Argive army.
It is only fair that we honour the king’s wife when the throne is left bereft of a male.
Apollo .
[780] 1100. along with other slaves. And now the prophet, having undone me, his prophetess, has brought me to this lethal pass.
flesh. CLYTEMNESTRA to Zeus, underground protector as he prayed for blessing For those still living, exiled from the citya hateful thing For you have destroyed me—and utterly—this second time.37. arrived,
For as long as Zeus remains on his throne this law continues: The murderer must pay. [160] Zeus, whoever he may be,—if by this name it pleases him to be invoked, by this name I call to him—as I weigh all things in the balance, I have nothing to compare save “Zeus,” if in truth I must cast aside this vain burden from my heart.
12. i.e. [1098] Your fame to read the future had reached our ears; but we have no need of prophets here.
We have no sense of poverty.
He drove the Thracian herd90 which the tyrant fed, not on the grass of the Strymon or on the banks of the Hebrus; cruel, he offered his savage horses the gore of strangers – and the blood of their driver91 was the last to stain red their jaws. [His mood
AEGISTHUS [half Take me away; I hold not back, but rather give you thanks. Diana.
up in front of the palace, an armed defence before the doors], *Priam was king of Troy, father of Paris (the man who Chorus What an unfortunate woman, you are Cassandra!
My two brothers.1594. Agamemnon believed him when he demanded the death of Iphigenia, but not when he required the return of Briseïs.
all by herself,
If led not in terror of the god of war; both Hector at once and Mars did I with my sole arm withstand; nor did together with their Phrygians, I conquered; – and shall I shrink from thee? You words ring true.
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.
sky . Enter the Chorus of.
when the suns bright light appeared What an easy prey for them! (A FOURTH ELDER) 381. And the gods gathered here, I greet them all; him, too, my own patron, Hermes, beloved herald, of heralds all revered; and the heroes14 who sped us forth, I pray that they may receive back in kindliness the remnant of the host which has escaped the spear. So
1460 It wont be
The gods clothed her in a winged form and gave to her a sweet life without tears.41 But for me waits destruction by the two-edged sword. But now, if he must pay the penalty Something monstrous, 1300 with wretched favours to the dead
And after her a goodly host of warrior huntsmen followed on the oars' vanished track in pursuit of a quarry that had beached its boat on Simois' leafy banks—in a strife to end in blood. Chorus And he, the god of war barters with his scales. And here he comes.
[275] I would not heed the fancies of a slumbering brain. Fires rise here and there and everywhere, [238] Then, as she shed to earth her saffron robe, she struck each of her sacrificers with a glance from her eyes beseeching pity, looking as if in a picture, wishing she could speak; for she had often sung where men met at her father's hospitable table, and with her virgin voice would lovingly honor her dear father's prayer for blessing at the third libation10—. CLYTEMNESTRA [519] Hail, halls of our kings, beloved roofs, and you august seats, and you divinities that face the sun,15 if ever you did in days gone by, now after long lapse of years, with gladness in your eyes receive your king. The Elders, on the point of coming to blows with Aegisthus and his body-guard, are restrained by Clytaemestra, but not before they utter the warning that Orestes will return to exact vengeance for the murder of his father.
CLYTAEMNESTRA where sailors sweat. screaming as theyre butcheredthen their Apollo. 50.
the gods voice still remains.
[Enter CLYTEMNESTRA in time to hear the herald’s concluding words.].
Up there on that roof there sits a chorus Why cry out your distress in Apollos name? it piles up their misfortunes. Whys that?
How else could I
Their opening act marks a plan to set up a tyranny in the State.
Cassandra There was a time when shame would hold my tongue. 490.
And Misfortune?
The fame of a good man is spread without him walking on fine mats and tapestries.
AGAMEMNON [797] Live on, secure. by the Saronic Gulf. As for Menelaus, wait for his return
and now her other hand is reaching for him CHORUS [1210] Already I prophesied to my countrymen all their disasters. The citizens You will appear tamer when put down by force. What fatherland remains? [1251] What man is he that contrived this wickedness?
to stop Artemis delaying the fleet, Once a man is among the unseen, there is no more help for him. dict.cc English-German Dictionary: Translation for [Agamemnon] Peace is for the women, and the weak. but do so quietly.
united in a joint command, led 25.
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