Aeschylus' AGAMEMNON Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Cassandra: (chanting) Apollo, Apollo!
God of all ways, but only Death's to me,
O thou Apollo, thou Destroyer named!
What way hast led me, to what evil home?

Leader: Know'st thou it not? The home of Atreus' race:
Take these my words for sooth and ask no more.

Cassandra: (chanting) Home cursed of God! Bear witness unto me,

Ye visioned woes within-
The blood-stained hands of them that smite their kin-
The strangling noose, and, spattered o'er
With human blood, the reeking floor!

Leader: How like a sleuth-hound questing on the track,
Keen-scented unto blood and death she hies!

Cassandra: (chanting) Ah! can the ghostly guidance fail,

Whereby my prophet-soul is onwards led?
Look! for their flesh the spectre-children wail,
Their sodden limbs on which their father fed!

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