Aeschylus's CHOEPHORI (Libation Bearers) Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Orestes: O father, to thy loved ones come in aid.

Electra: With tears I call on thee.

Chorus: Listen and rise to light!
Be thou with us, be thou against the foe!
Swiftly this cry arises-even so
Pray we, the loyal band, as we have prayed!

Orestes: Let their might meet with mine, and their right with my right.

Electra: O ye Gods, it is yours to decree.

Chorus: Ye call unto the dead; I quake to hear.
Fate is ordained of old, and shall fulfil your prayer.

Electra: Alas, the inborn curse that haunts our home,
Of Ate's bloodstained scourge the tuneless sound!
Alas, the deep insufferable doom,
The stanchless wound!

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