Aeschylus's CHOEPHORI (Libation Bearers) Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Chorus: : singing So be it done-
Sister-servants, when draws nigh
Time for us aloud to cry
Orestes and his victory?

O holy earth and holy tomb
Over the grave-pit heaped on high,
Where low doth Agamemnon lie,
The king of ships, the army's lord!
Now is the hour-give ear and come,
For now doth Craft her aid afford,
And Hermes, guard of shades in hell,
Stands o'er their strife, to sentinel
The dooming of the sword.

Leader of the Chorus: I wot the stranger worketh woe within-
For lo! I see come forth, suffused with tears,
Orestes' nurse. The Nurse enters from the palace. What ho, Kilissa-thou
Beyond the doors? Where goest thou? Methinks
Some grief unbidden walketh at thy side.

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