The Tragedies of ÆschylusBell, 1882 - 394 pages |
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adopts Agamemnon alters Apollo Argives Atossa Atreida behold Blomfield blood Burges calamity chorus CLYT Clytemnestra common reading Conington conjecture curse death deed deity didst Dindorf dwelling earth emendation Eschylus ETEOCLES Eumenides evil fate father gods Greek hand hath hear Hermann's honor Jove Jupiter Justice king land lieu Line in G Linwood literal version means mighty mortals mother Müller murder Notes he prefers Orestes Paley passage Peile Pelasgians Persians Prometheus race Reference to Translation renders retains Schutz sense sire Soph sorrow spear suffer suppliant tell text of H thee thine things thou art thou hast Thyestes thyself utter verse wail words wrath wretched Xerxes Zeus ἂν γὰρ δὲ εἰ ἐκ ἐν ἐς εὖ καὶ μὲν μὴ οἱ οὐ οὐκ πρὸς τὰ τε καὶ τί τὸ τὸν τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Page 196 - and let Lycian Apollo be propitious to all the youth. And may Jove render the earth fruitful with increase at all seasons: and may the herds that feed before [the city] in like manner
Page 186 - he who has not found them gentle, knows not whence come the ills of life
Page 121 - The bound of honor, or in act or will, That way inclining,
Page 144 - heavy on the chambers of the women. Interpreters too of these dreams, bound to veracity, declared on the part of the gods, that those beneath the earth
Page 168 - him indeed who possesses pure hands no wrath from us steals, but free from harm he passes his life : but whoever, committing
Page 170 - to speak ill of one deformed is far from proper, and justice is absent from it.
Page 192 - temples of the country's gods, and the seats of those who guard the city, and that there may be safety to us proceeding through the city : but the appearance of our form is not
Page 170 - at my image, and to you resembling no race of beings produced, nor beheld among goddesses by gods, nor yet like to mortal forms; but for
Page 137 - cause of all, doer of all : for what is accomplished among mortals without
Page 137 - corpse in defiance of what is right, like an odious raven in my