Aeschylus' EUMENIDES Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Apollo: Scorn of the younger and the elder gods
Art thou: 'tis I that shall prevail anon.

Leader: Thus didst thou too of old in Pheres' halls,
O'erreaching Fate to make a mortal deathless.

Apollo: Was it not well, my worshipper to aid,
Then most of all when hardest was the need?

Leader: I say thou didst annul the lots of life,
Cheating with wine the deities of eld.

Apollo: I say thou shalt anon, thy pleadings foiled,
Spit venom vainly on thine enemies.

Leader: Since this young god o'errides mine ancient right,
I tarry but to claim your law, not knowing
If wrath of mine shall blast your state or spare.

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