Scaife ATLAS

CTS Library / Agamemnon

Agamemnon (1588-1616)

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg005.perseus-eng4:1588-1616
Refs {'start': {'reference': '1588', 'human_reference': 'Line 1588'}, 'end': {'reference': '1616', 'human_reference': 'Line 1616'}}
Ancestors []
Children []
prev
plain textXML
next
Wretched Thuestes found the fate assured him
Not to die, bloodying his paternal threshold
Just there: but host-wise this mans impious father
Atreus, soul-keenly more than kindly, seeming
To joyous hold a flesh-day, to my father
Served up a meal, the flesh of his own children.
The feet indeed and the hands top divisions
He hid, high up and isolated sitting:
But, their unshowing parts in ignorance taking,
He forthwith eats food as thou seest perdition
To the race: and then, ware of the deed ill-omened,
He shrieked O! falls back, vomiting, from the carnage,
And fate on the Pelopidai past bearing
He prays down putting in his curse together
The kicking down o the feast that so might perish
The race of Pleisthenes entire: and thence is
That it is given thee to see this man prostrate.
And I was rightly of this slaughter stitch-man:
Since me, being third from ten, with my poor father
He drives out being then a babe in swathe-bands:
But, grown up, back again has justice brought me:
And of this man I got hold being without-doors
Fitting together the whole scheme of ill-will.
So, sweet, in fine, even to die were to me,
Seeing, as I have, this man i the toils of justice!
CHOROS.
Aigisthos, arrogance in ills I love not.
Dost thou say willing, thou didst kill the man here,
And, alone, plot this lamentable slaughter?
I say thy head in justice will escape not
The peoples throwing know that! stones and curses!

Tokens

Wretched 1 w 8
Thuestes 1 w 16
found 1 w 21
the 1 w 24
fate 1 w 28
assured 1 w 35
him 1 w 38
Not 1 w 42
to 1 w 44
die 1 w 47
bloodying 1 w 57
his 1 w 60
paternal 1 w 68
threshold 1 w 77
Just 1 w 81
there 1 w 86
but 1 w 90
host-wise 1 w 99
this 1 w 103
man 1 w 106
s 11 w 108
impious 1 w 115
father 1 w 121
Atreus 1 w 127
soul-keenly 1 w 139
more 1 w 143
than 1 w 147
kindly 1 w 153
seeming 1 w 162
To 1 w 164
joyous 1 w 170
hold 2 w 174
a 8 w 175
flesh-day 1 w 184
to 2 w 188
my 1 w 190
father 2 w 196
Served 1 w 202
up 1 w 204
a 11 w 205
meal 1 w 209
the 5 w 213
flesh 2 w 218
of 1 w 220
his 3 w 223
own 1 w 226
children 1 w 234
The 1 w 238
feet 1 w 242
indeed 1 w 248
and 1 w 251
the 6 w 254
hands 1 w 259
top 1 w 263
divisions 1 w 272
He 1 w 274
hid 1 w 277
high 1 w 282
up 2 w 284
and 3 w 287
isolated 1 w 295
sitting 1 w 302
But 1 w 306
their 1 w 312
unshowing 1 w 321
parts 1 w 326
in 7 w 328
ignorance 1 w 337
taking 1 w 343
He 2 w 346
forthwith 1 w 355
eats 1 w 359
food 1 w 363
as 2 w 366
thou 1 w 370
seest 1 w 375
perdition 1 w 385
To 2 w 387
the 8 w 390
race 1 w 394
and 4 w 398
then 1 w 402
ware 1 w 408
of 2 w 410
the 10 w 413
deed 2 w 417
ill-omened 1 w 427
He 3 w 430
shrieked 1 w 438
O 1 w 439
falls 1 w 446
back 1 w 450
vomiting 1 w 459
from 1 w 464
the 11 w 467
carnage 1 w 474
And 1 w 478
fate 2 w 482
on 3 w 484
the 12 w 487
Pelopidai 1 w 496
past 1 w 500
bearing 1 w 507
He 4 w 509
prays 1 w 514
down 1 w 518
putting 1 w 526
in 12 w 528
his 4 w 531
curse 1 w 536
together 1 w 544
The 2 w 547
kicking 1 w 554
down 2 w 558
o 38 w 559
the 14 w 563
feast 1 w 568
that 1 w 573
so 3 w 575
might 1 w 580
perish 1 w 586
The 3 w 589
race 2 w 593
of 3 w 595
Pleisthenes 1 w 606
entire 1 w 612
and 5 w 616
thence 1 w 622
is 10 w 624
That 1 w 628
it 5 w 630
is 11 w 632
given 1 w 637
thee 1 w 641
to 5 w 643
see 3 w 646
this 2 w 650
man 2 w 653
prostrate 1 w 662
And 2 w 666
I 1 w 667
was 1 w 670
rightly 1 w 677
of 4 w 679
this 3 w 683
slaughter 1 w 692
stitch-man 1 w 702
Since 1 w 708
me 3 w 710
being 1 w 717
third 1 w 722
from 2 w 726
ten 1 w 729
with 2 w 735
my 2 w 737
poor 1 w 741
father 3 w 747
He 5 w 749
drives 1 w 755
out 1 w 758
being 2 w 764
then 4 w 768
a 45 w 769
babe 1 w 773
in 17 w 775
swathe-bands 1 w 787
But 2 w 791
grown 1 w 797
up 3 w 799
back 2 w 804
again 1 w 809
has 1 w 812
justice 1 w 819
brought 1 w 826
me 4 w 828
And 3 w 832
of 5 w 834
this 4 w 838
man 4 w 841
I 2 w 842
got 1 w 845
hold 3 w 849
being 3 w 855
without-doors 1 w 868
Fitting 1 w 876
together 2 w 884
the 22 w 887
whole 1 w 892
scheme 1 w 898
of 6 w 900
ill-will 1 w 908
So 1 w 911
sweet 1 w 917
in 21 w 920
fine 1 w 924
even 1 w 929
to 7 w 931
die 2 w 934
were 1 w 938
to 8 w 940
me 6 w 942
Seeing 1 w 949
as 7 w 952
I 3 w 953
have 1 w 957
this 5 w 962
man 5 w 965
i 75 w 966
the 23 w 970
toils 1 w 975
of 7 w 977
justice 2 w 984
CHOROS 1 w 991
Aigisthos 1 w 1001
arrogance 1 w 1011
in 24 w 1013
ills 1 w 1017
I 4 w 1018
love 1 w 1022
not 1 w 1025
Dost 1 w 1030
thou 3 w 1034
say 1 w 1037
willing 1 w 1045
thou 4 w 1050
didst 1 w 1055
kill 1 w 1059
the 24 w 1062
man 6 w 1065
here 2 w 1069
And 4 w 1073
alone 1 w 1079
plot 1 w 1084
this 6 w 1088
lamentable 1 w 1098
slaughter 2 w 1107
I 5 w 1109
say 2 w 1112
thy 1 w 1116
head 1 w 1120
in 26 w 1122
justice 3 w 1129
will 3 w 1133
escape 1 w 1139
not 2 w 1142
The 4 w 1145
people 1 w 1151
s 75 w 1153
throwing 1 w 1161
know 1 w 1166
that 2 w 1170
stones 1 w 1178
and 7 w 1181
curses 1 w 1187