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Ἀγαμέμνων Aeschylus

Stasimon 6

CHOROS.
Alas, that some
 
Fate would come
 
Upon us in quickness —
 
Neither much sickness
 
Neither bed-keeping — 1450
 
And bear unended sleeping,
 
Now that subdued
 
Is our keeper, the kindest of mood!
 
Having borne, for a woman’s sake, much strife —
 
By a woman he withered from life!
 
Ah me! 1455
 
Law-breaking Helena who, one, 1455
 
Hast many, so many souls undone
 
’Neath Troia! and now the consummated
 
Much-memorable curse
 
Hast thou made flower-forth, red
 
With the blood no rains disperse, 1460
 
That which was then in the House — 1460
 
Strife all-subduing, the woe of a spouse.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
Nowise, of death the fate —
 
Burdened by these things — supplicate!
 
Nor on Helena turn thy wrath
 
As the man-destroyer, as she who hath, 1465
 
Being but one, 1465
 
Many and many a soul undone
 
Of the men, the Danaoi —
 
And wrought immense annoy!
CHOROS.
Daimon, who fallest
 
Upon this household and the double-raced
 
Tantalidai, a rule, minded like theirs displaced,
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