Aeschylus' AGAMEMNON Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Leader: Ah--'tis Thyestes' feast on kindred flesh--
I guess her meaning and with horror thrill,
Hearing no shadow'd hint of th' o'er-true tale,
But its full hatefulness: yet, for the rest,
Far from the track I roam, and know no more.

Cassandra: 'Tis Agamemnon's doom thou shalt behold.

Leader: Peace hapless woman, to thy boding words!

Cassandra: Far from my speech stands he who sains and saves.

Leader: Ay-- were such a doom at hand-- which God forbid!

Cassandra: Thou prayest idly--these move swift to slay.

Leader: What man prepares a deed of such despite?

Cassandra: Fool! thus to read amiss mine oracles.

Leader: Deviser and device are dark to me.

Cassandra: Dark! all too well I speak the Grecian tongue.

Leader: Ay--but in thine, as in Apollo's strains,
Familiar is the tongue, but dark the thought.

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