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Agamemnon (1234-1263)

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Housing in rocks, of mariners the mischief,
Revelling Haides’ mother, — curse, no truce with,
Breathing at friends! How piously she shouted,
The all-courageous, as at turn of battle!
She seems to joy at the back-bringing safety!
Of this, too, if I nought persuade, all’s one! Why?
What is to be will come. And soon thou, present,
True prophet all too much wilt pitying style me.
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CHOROS.
Thuestes’ feast, indeed, on flesh of children,
I went with, and I shuddered. Fear too holds me
Listing what’s true as life, nowise out-imaged.
KASSANDRA.
I say, thou Agamemnon’s fate shalt look on.
CHOROS.
Speak good words, O unhappy! Set mouth sleeping!
KASSANDRA.
But Paian stands in no stead to the speech here.
CHOROS.
Nay, if the thing be near: but never be it!
KASSANDRA.
Thou, indeed, prayest: they to kill are busy.
CHOROS.
Of what man is it ministered, this sorrow?
KASSANDRA.
There again, wide thou look’st of my foretellings.
CHOROS.
For, the fulfiller’s scheme I have not gone with.
KASSANDRA.
And yet too well I know the speech Hellenic.
CHOROS.
For Puthian oracles, thy speech, and hard too.
KASSANDRA
Papai: what fire this! and it comes upon me!
Ototoi, Lukeion Apollon, ah me — me!
She, the two-footed lioness that sleeps with
The wolf, in absence of the generous lion,
Kills me the unhappy one: and as a poison
Brewing, to put my price too in the anger,
She vows, against her mate this weapon whetting
To pay him back the bringing me, with slaughter.
Why keep I then these things to make me laughed at,

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