δολοφόνου λέβητος τύχαν σοι λέγω.
ΧΟΡΟΞ


οὐ κομπάσαιμ᾽ ἂν θεσφάτων γνώμων ἄκρος
εἶναι, κακῷ δέ τῳ προσεικάζω τάδε.
ἀπὸ δὲ θεσφάτων τίς ἀγαθὰ φάτις

βροτοῖς τέλλεται; κακῶν γὰρ διαὶ
πολνεπεῖς τέχναι θεσπιῳδὸν


φόβον φέρουσιν μαθεῖν.
ΚΑΞΑΝΔΡΑ


DN ON


ἰὼ ἰὼ ταλαίνας κακόποτμοι τύχαι"
τὸ γὰρ ἐμὸν θροῶ πάθος ἐπεγχεασα.
ποῖ δή με δεῦρο τὴν τάλαιναν ἤγαγες;


οὐδέν ποτ᾽ εἰ μὴ ξυνθανουμένην. τί γάρ;


93


Ant. 5


Str. 6


94


1140


1150


1160


AESCHYLUS’ AGAMEMNON


CHORUS LEADER


Thou art distracted by divine madness, and
about thyself thou dost utter an unmelodious
song; aS some tawny nightingale insatiate of
wailing, alas, from her wretched soul with
a cry of “Itys, Itys,” bewails her life which is
blossoming with sorrows.
CASSANDRA


Oh, alas for the fate of the clear-voiced
nightingale! For the Gods have given her a
winged body and a sweet life without weeping ;
but there awaits me to be cleft by the two-edged
sword.
CHORUS LEADER


Whence come these vain pangs that rush
upon thee through some divine power? Why
dost thou strike these terrible notes with ill-
omened cries, and likewise in shrillest strains ?
Why dost thou keep to these ill-boding ways
of the prophetic road ?


CASSANDRA


Alas for the nuptials of Paris, destructive to
his friends! Alas for the Scamander, from
which my fathers drank! Once as a child I
was reared upon thy banks; but now on the
banks of Cocytus and of Acheron I seem
likely soon to sing my pyophetic song.
1140


1145


1150


155


1160


ΑἸΣΧΎΛΟΥ ATAMEMNON 95


XOPOS


φρενομανής τις εἶ θεοφόρητος, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ αὑτᾶς θροεῖς
νόμον ἄνομον, οἷά τις ξουθὰ

> 4 fal lal # Ν

ἀκόρετος Bods, φεῦ, ταλαίναις φρεσὶν

ἊΡ Ψ , Ὃ > 3 a as

Ἴτυν "Ituv στένουσ᾽ ἀμφιθαλῆ κακοῖς

3 Ν ᾿

ἀηδὼν βίον.
