The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: With a Metrical Translation and Notes Critical and Illustrative by Benjamin Hall Kennedy ...University Press, 1882 - 227 pages |
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... Atreus , incur popular odium , and the Erinyes exact vengeance for the blood of the slain . Happy they who are exempt from the evils of war , either as con- querors or as conquered . In the Epode the Chorus expresses some doubt as to ...
... Atreus , incur popular odium , and the Erinyes exact vengeance for the blood of the slain . Happy they who are exempt from the evils of war , either as con- querors or as conquered . In the Epode the Chorus expresses some doubt as to ...
Page 77
... Atreus ' sons 390 ( 365 ) 395 he came , and by the stealing of a wife the hospitable board polluted . Then , leaving to the citizens shields clashing , spearmen , sailors arming , to Ilion taking ruin for a dower , tof cities twain one ...
... Atreus ' sons 390 ( 365 ) 395 he came , and by the stealing of a wife the hospitable board polluted . Then , leaving to the citizens shields clashing , spearmen , sailors arming , to Ilion taking ruin for a dower , tof cities twain one ...
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... Atreus . but others on the spot , around the fortress , in their own forms hold tombs of Ilian land , yet , holding , by the foeman's soil are hidden . The talk of spiteful citizens is noisome , and worketh as a people - sanctioned ...
... Atreus . but others on the spot , around the fortress , in their own forms hold tombs of Ilian land , yet , holding , by the foeman's soil are hidden . The talk of spiteful citizens is noisome , and worketh as a people - sanctioned ...
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... Atreus , happy man ; and worthiest to be honoured of all mortals he that live for neither Paris nor his citizens can boast their doing greater than their suffering . for , worsted in a suit of rapine and of theft , 526 530 ( 493 ) he ...
... Atreus , happy man ; and worthiest to be honoured of all mortals he that live for neither Paris nor his citizens can boast their doing greater than their suffering . for , worsted in a suit of rapine and of theft , 526 530 ( 493 ) he ...
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... Atreus , how I am to address thee , how revere thee , not overstepping nor yet resting short of the proper line of salutation ? for many , after violating justice , prize more the seeming than the being : and every one is prompt to give ...
... Atreus , how I am to address thee , how revere thee , not overstepping nor yet resting short of the proper line of salutation ? for many , after violating justice , prize more the seeming than the being : and every one is prompt to give ...
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