Aeschylus' AGAMEMNON Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Leader: Thou losel soul, was then thy strength too slight

To deal in murder, while a woman's hand,
Staining and shaming Argos and its gods,
Availed to slay him? Ho, if anywhere
The light of life smite on Orestes' eyes,
Let him, returning by some guardian fate,
Hew down with force her paramour and her!

Aegisthus: How thy word and act shall issue, thou shalt shortly understand.

Leader: Up to action, O my comrades! for the fight is hard at hand.
Swift, your right hands to the sword hilt! bare the weapon as for strife--

Aegisthus: Lo! I too am standing ready, hand on hilt for death or life.

Leader: 'Twas thy word and we accept it: onward to the chance of war!

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