Unhappy in his fate. Syennesis, Cilicia's warlike chief, who dared to front The foremost dangers, ...
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Unbound the middle current, down they sunk Each over other; happiest he who found The speediest de...
Whereby Zeus shall persuade me to unlock My lips until these shackles be cast loose. Therefore let...
450 BC THE CHOEPHORI by Aeschylus translated by E.D.A. Moreshead CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ORESTES...
Me and mine own Orestes, Father, speak- How shall thy children rule thine halls again? Homeless we...
Thro' all this peril; clear the voice rang out With many warnings, sternly threatening To my hot h...
Or sound of charming song shall make me well? Hide naught of ill But-if indeed thou knowest-prophe...
Stretched rendingly forth, to tatter and tear, My clenched hands wander, here and there, From head...
Thou dost cryout, fetching again deep groans: What wilt thou do when thou hast heard in full The e...
And what if none of those that tend the gates Shall welcome us with gladness, since the house With...
Disclosed to me; but how and in what wise Were long to tell, nor would it profit thee. IO Again t...
O holy earth and holy tomb Over the grave-pit heaped on high, Where low doth Agamemnon lie, The k...
PROMETHEUS Ah me! Ah me! Fair progeny That many-childed Tethys brought to birth, Fathered of Oce...
Urged by no fear of other wrath and doom? LEADER What spur can rightly goad to matricide? ATHENA ...
Nor any bit, but mind's firm masterdom. And know that for thy grief my heart is sore; The bond of ...