As he went buzzing — sorrows that concerned thee Seeing, that filled more than their fellow-sleep-time. Now, all this having suffered, from soul grief-free I would style this man here the dog o’ the stables, The saviour forestay of the ship, the high roof’s Ground-prop, son sole-begotten to his father, — Ay, land appearing to the sailors past hope, Loveliest day to see after a tempest, To the wayfaring-one athirst a well-spring, — The joy, in short, of ’scaping all that ’s — fatal! I judge him worth addresses such as these are — Envy stand off! — for many those old evils We underwent. And now, to me — dear headship! — Dismount thou from this car, not earthward setting The foot of thine, O king, that’s Ilion ’s spoiler! Slave-maids, why tarry? — whose the task allotted To strew the soil o’ the road with carpet-spreadings. Immediately be purple-strewn the pathway, So that to home unhoped may lead him — Justice! As for the rest, care shall — by no sleep conquered — Dispose things — justly (gods to aid!) appointed.
 AGAMEMNON. Offspring of Leda, of my household warder, Suitably to my absence hast thou spoken, For long the speech thou didst outstretch! But aptly To praise — from others ought to go this favour. And for the rest, —-not me, in woman’s fashion, Mollify, nor — as mode of barbarous man is — To me gape forth a groundward-falling clamour! Nor, strewing it with garments, make my passage Envied! Gods, sure, with these behoves we honour: