ΚΛΥΤΑΙΜΗΞΤΡΑ


πολλῶν πάροιθεν καιρίως εἰρημένων
τἀναντί᾽ εἰπεῖν οὐκ ἐπαισχυνθήσομαι.
lal Fi x te) = Ν a ’
πῶς γάρ τις ἐχθροῖς ἐχθρὰ πορσύνων, φίλοις
δοκοῦσιν εἶναι, πημονὴν ἀρκύστατ᾽ ἂν
φράξειεν, ὕψος κρεῖσσον ἐκπηδήματος ;
> XN > >, AN νῷ» > 3 ’, ΄
ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἀγὼν ὁδ᾽ οὐκ ἀφρόντιστος πάλαι
νίκης παλαιᾶς ἦλθε, σὺν χρόνῳ γε μήν
ν 7 ¥ > ¥ > 3 ὦ 3 ΄
ἔστηκα δ᾽ ἔνθ᾽ ἔπαισ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἐξειργασμένοις.
yg > ¥ ες 4Q> > > ,
οὕτω δ᾽ ἔπραξα, καὶ τάδ᾽ οὐκ ἀρνήσομαι,
ε ‘4 4 fo , 6 ,
ὡς μήτε φεύγειν μήτ᾽ ἀμύνεσθαι μόρον.
᾽ν > , A > 6 ,
ἄπειρον ἀμφίβληστρον, ὥσπερ ἰχθύων,
περιστιχίζω, πλοῦτον εἵματος κακόν.
παίω. δέ νιν Sis: κἀν δυοῖν οἰμωγμάτοιν
μεθῆκεν αὑτοῦ κῶλα - καὶ πεπτωκότι


120


1390


1400


AESCHYLUS’ AGAMEMNON


and when he has fallen, I add a third blow, a
grateful boon to Hades beneath the earth, the
saviour of the dead. Thus falling, he pants forth
his life; and as he breathes forth the sharp gush
of his life-blood, he strikes me with a dark drop of
deadly dew, and I rejoice in it no less than the
sown field rejoices in beauty sent from Zeus in
the bursting of the flower-cup. Since this is so,
aged men of Argos, you may rejoice if so you
please; but I exult. And if it were becoming to
pour a libation over this dead man, this would be
just, nay, exceeding just. With so many cursed
calamities has he filled the cup in this house, and
now he has come home to drain it off.
CHORUS LEADER


We wonder at thy tongue, — how bold-mouthed
thou art, who dost utter such a boastful speech
over thy husband.
