Aeschylus's CHOEPHORI (Libation Bearers) Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Leader: Yea, from herself; her womb a serpent bare.

Orestes: What then the sum and issue of the tale?

Leader: Even as a swaddled child, she lull'd the thing.

Orestes: What suckling craved the creature, born full-fanged?

Leader: Yet in her dreams she proffered it the breast.

Orestes: How? did the hateful thing not bite her teat?

Leader: Yea, and sucked forth a blood-gout in the milk.

Orestes: Not vain this dream-it bodes a man's revenge.

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