The House of Atreus
The House of Atreus
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ANOTHER Think well--must cry or sign of woe or painFix our conclusion that the chief is slain?
ANOTHER Such talk befits us when the deed we see--Conjecture dwells afar from certainty.
LEADER OF THE CHORUS I read one will from many a diverse word, To know aright, how stands it with our lord!
[_The scene opens, disclosing Clytemnestra, who comes forward. Thebody of Agamemnon lies, muffled in a long robe, within a silver-sidedlaver; the corpse of Cassandra is laid beside him. _ CLYTEMNESTRA Ho, ye... who heard me speak so long and oftThe glozing word that led me to my will?Hear how I shrink not to unsay it all!How else should one who willeth to requiteEvil for evil to an enemyDisguised as friend, weave the mesh straitly round him, Not to be overleaped, a net of doom?This is the sum and issue of old strife, Of me deep-pondered and at length fulfilled. All is avowed, and as I smote I standWith foot set firm upon a finished thing!I turn not to denial: thus I wroughtSo that he could nor flee nor ward his doom, Even as the trammel hems the scaly shoal, I trapped him with inextricable toils, The ill abundance of a baffling robe;Then smote him, once, again--and at each woundHe cried aloud, then as in death relaxedEach limb and sank to earth; and as he lay, Once more I smote him, with the last third blow, Sacred to Hades, saviour of the dead.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
ANOTHER Think well--must cry or sign of woe or painFix our conclusion that the chief is slain?
ANOTHER Such talk befits us when the deed we see--Conjecture dwells afar from certainty.
LEADER OF THE CHORUS I read one will from many a diverse word, To know aright, how stands it with our lord!
[_The scene opens, disclosing Clytemnestra, who comes forward. Thebody of Agamemnon lies, muffled in a long robe, within a silver-sidedlaver; the corpse of Cassandra is laid beside him. _ CLYTEMNESTRA Ho, ye... who heard me speak so long and oftThe glozing word that led me to my will?Hear how I shrink not to unsay it all!How else should one who willeth to requiteEvil for evil to an enemyDisguised as friend, weave the mesh straitly round him, Not to be overleaped, a net of doom?This is the sum and issue of old strife, Of me deep-pondered and at length fulfilled. All is avowed, and as I smote I standWith foot set firm upon a finished thing!I turn not to denial: thus I wroughtSo that he could nor flee nor ward his doom, Even as the trammel hems the scaly shoal, I trapped him with inextricable toils, The ill abundance of a baffling robe;Then smote him, once, again--and at each woundHe cried aloud, then as in death relaxedEach limb and sank to earth; and as he lay, Once more I smote him, with the last third blow, Sacred to Hades, saviour of the dead.
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