Scaife ATLAS

Agamemnon (546-575)

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg005.perseus-eng4:546-575

Refs	`{'start': {'reference': '546', 'human_reference': 'Line 546'}, 'end': {'reference': '575', 'human_reference': 'Line 575'}}`
Ancestors	`[]`
Children	`[]`

plain text • XML

So as to set me oft, from dark mind, groaning.

HERALD.

Whence came this ill mind — hatred to the army?

CHOROS.

Of old, I use, for mischiefs physic, silence.

HERALD.

And how, the chiefs away, did you fear any?

CHOROS.

So that now, — late thy word, — much joy were — dying!

HERALD.

For well have things been worked out: these, — in much time,

Some of them, one might say, had luck in falling,

While some were faulty: since who, gods excepted,

Goes, through the whole time of his life, ungrieving?

For labours should I tell of, and bad lodgments,

Narrow deckways ill-strewn, too, — what the day’s woe

We did not groan at getting for our portion?

As for land-things, again, on went more hatred!

Since beds were ours hard by the foemen’s ramparts,

And, out of heaven and from the earth, the meadow

Dews kept a-sprinkle, an abiding damage

Of vestures, making hair a wild-beast matting.

Winter, too, if one told of it — bird-slaying —

Such as, unbearable, Idaian snow brought —

Or heat, when waveless, on its noontide couches

Without a wind, the sea would slumber falling

— Why must one mourn these? O’er and gone is labour:

O’er and gone is it, even to those dead ones,

So that no more again they mind uprising.

Why must we tell in numbers those deprived ones,

And the live man be vexed with fate’s fresh outbreak?

Rather, I bid full farewell to misfortunes!

For us, the left from out the Argeian army,

The gain beats, nor does sorrow counterbalance.

So that ’t is fitly boasted of, this sunlight,

Tokens

So	1	w	2
as	1	w	4
to	1	w	6
set	1	w	9
me	1	w	11
oft	1	w	14
from	1	w	19
dark	1	w	23
mind	1	w	27
groaning	1	w	36
HERALD	1	w	43
Whence	1	w	50
came	1	w	54
this	1	w	58
ill	1	w	61
mind	2	w	65
hatred	1	w	72
to	2	w	74
the	1	w	77
army	1	w	81
CHOROS	1	w	88
Of	1	w	91
old	1	w	94
I	1	w	96
use	1	w	99
for	1	w	103
mischiefs	1	w	112
physic	1	w	118
silence	1	w	126
HERALD	2	w	133
And	1	w	137
how	1	w	140
the	2	w	144
chiefs	2	w	150
away	1	w	154
did	1	w	158
you	1	w	161
fear	1	w	165
any	1	w	168
CHOROS	2	w	175
So	2	w	178
that	1	w	182
now	1	w	185
late	1	w	191
thy	1	w	194
word	1	w	198
much	1	w	204
joy	1	w	207
were	1	w	211
dying	1	w	217
HERALD	3	w	224
For	1	w	228
well	1	w	232
have	1	w	236
things	1	w	242
been	1	w	246
worked	1	w	252
out	1	w	255
these	1	w	261
in	6	w	265
much	2	w	269
time	1	w	273
Some	1	w	278
of	2	w	280
them	1	w	284
one	1	w	288
might	1	w	293
say	1	w	296
had	1	w	300
luck	1	w	304
in	7	w	306
falling	1	w	313
While	1	w	319
some	1	w	323
were	2	w	327
faulty	1	w	333
since	1	w	339
who	1	w	342
gods	1	w	347
excepted	1	w	355
Goes	1	w	360
through	1	w	368
the	5	w	371
whole	1	w	376
time	2	w	380
of	3	w	382
his	2	w	385
life	1	w	389
ungrieving	1	w	400
For	2	w	404
labours	1	w	411
should	1	w	417
I	2	w	418
tell	1	w	422
of	4	w	424
and	1	w	428
bad	1	w	431
lodgments	1	w	440
Narrow	1	w	447
deckways	1	w	455
ill-strewn	1	w	465
too	1	w	469
what	1	w	475
the	6	w	478
day	1	w	481
s	23	w	483
woe	1	w	486
We	1	w	488
did	2	w	491
not	1	w	494
groan	2	w	499
at	5	w	501
getting	1	w	508
for	2	w	511
our	2	w	514
portion	1	w	521
As	1	w	524
for	3	w	527
land-things	1	w	538
again	1	w	544
on	3	w	547
went	1	w	551
more	1	w	555
hatred	2	w	561
Since	1	w	567
beds	1	w	571
were	3	w	575
ours	2	w	579
hard	1	w	583
by	1	w	585
the	7	w	588
foemen	1	w	594
s	28	w	596
ramparts	1	w	604
And	2	w	608
out	2	w	612
of	5	w	614
heaven	1	w	620
and	3	w	623
from	2	w	627
the	8	w	630
earth	1	w	635
the	9	w	639
meadow	1	w	645
Dews	1	w	649
kept	1	w	653
a-sprinkle	1	w	663
an	7	w	666
abiding	1	w	673
damage	1	w	679
Of	2	w	681
vestures	1	w	689
making	1	w	696
hair	1	w	700
a	45	w	701
wild-beast	1	w	711
matting	1	w	718
Winter	1	w	725
too	2	w	729
if	2	w	732
one	2	w	735
told	1	w	739
of	6	w	741
it	1	w	743
bird-slaying	1	w	756
Such	1	w	761
as	3	w	763
unbearable	1	w	774
Idaian	1	w	781
snow	1	w	785
brought	1	w	792
Or	1	w	795
heat	1	w	799
when	1	w	804
waveless	1	w	812
on	5	w	815
its	1	w	818
noontide	1	w	826
couches	1	w	833
Without	1	w	840
a	56	w	841
wind	1	w	845
the	10	w	849
sea	1	w	852
would	1	w	857
slumber	1	w	864
falling	2	w	871
Why	1	w	875
must	1	w	879
one	3	w	882
mourn	1	w	887
these	2	w	892
O	8	w	894
er	6	w	897
and	4	w	900
gone	1	w	904
is	4	w	906
labour	2	w	912
O	9	w	914
er	7	w	917
and	5	w	920
gone	2	w	924
is	5	w	926
it	4	w	928
even	1	w	933
to	6	w	935
those	1	w	940
dead	1	w	944
ones	1	w	948
So	4	w	951
that	2	w	955
no	5	w	957
more	2	w	961
again	2	w	966
they	1	w	970
mind	3	w	974
uprising	1	w	982
Why	2	w	986
must	2	w	990
we	6	w	992
tell	2	w	996
in	26	w	998
numbers	1	w	1005
those	2	w	1010
deprived	1	w	1018
ones	2	w	1022
And	3	w	1026
the	13	w	1029
live	1	w	1033
man	1	w	1036
be	7	w	1038
vexed	1	w	1043
with	1	w	1047
fate	1	w	1051
s	55	w	1053
fresh	1	w	1058
outbreak	1	w	1066
Rather	1	w	1073
I	4	w	1075
bid	2	w	1078
full	1	w	1082
farewell	1	w	1090
to	7	w	1092
misfortunes	1	w	1103
For	3	w	1107
us	4	w	1109
the	15	w	1113
left	1	w	1117
from	3	w	1121
out	5	w	1124
the	16	w	1127
Argeian	1	w	1134
army	2	w	1138
The	1	w	1142
gain	3	w	1146
beats	1	w	1151
nor	1	w	1155
does	1	w	1159
sorrow	1	w	1165
counterbalance	1	w	1179
So	5	w	1182
that	3	w	1186
t	86	w	1188
is	8	w	1190
fitly	1	w	1195
boasted	1	w	1202
of	7	w	1204
this	2	w	1209
sunlight	1	w	1217