Aeschylus' AGAMEMNON Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Clytemnestra: Nay, but unsay it-thwart not thou my will!

Agamemnon: Know, I have said, and will not mar my word.

Clytemnestra: Was it fear made this meekness to the gods?

Agamemnon: If cause be cause, 'tis mine for this resolve.

Clytemnestra: What, think'st thou, in thy place had Priam done?

Agamemnon: He surely would have walked on broidered robes.

Clytemnestra: Then fear not thou the voice of human blame.

Agamemnon: Yet mighty is the murmur of a crowd.

Clytemnestra: Shrink not from envy, appanage of bliss.

Agamemnon: War is not woman's part, nor war of words.

Clytemnestra: Yet happy victors well may yield therein.

Agamemnon: Dost crave for triumph in this petty strife?

Clytemnestra: Yield; of thy grace permit me to prevail!

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