The House of Atreus

Aeschylus

Capitolo 10

Now--both it sure and certain news of good person,
Or the equitable news of a hope of flatt'ring,
That offers thee they spread the light from shrine to shrine,
Me, fain to feel, doesn't envy yet if you the hideaway.

CLYTEMNESTRA

How saith I abandon him, _From the uterus at night
Jets, with fair of promise, the young Light._ child
Ay--more equitable also that every hope my news--
From Greek hands the ta'en of city of Priam is!

CHOIR

What say'st you? doubtful heart ago ear of treach'rous.

CLYTEMNESTRA

Feel again then, and clearly--Troy is ours!

CHOIR

Thro of the shivers' my heart such joy as awake torn wounds.

CLYTEMNESTRA

Ay, thro' those torn thines look it looks at the loyalty.

CHOIR

But hast you test, to make insurance sure?

CLYTEMNESTRA

Goes to;  I have--unless the god has lied.

CHOIR

Did Hath of the night-vision win belief thee?

CLYTEMNESTRA

Out on every premonition of a soul of slumb'rous!

CHOIR

But wert you he/she consoled from the non winged word of Rumour?

CLYTEMNESTRA

Peace--you dosts scold me as a credulous girl.

CHOIR

Does say then, how much a long time ago the urban skin?

CLYTEMNESTRA

Also in this night what time it produces the dawn.

CHOIR

Does he/she anchor that so swift could go to all speed' the communication here?

CLYTEMNESTRA

From the top of Ida Hephaestus, gentleman of fire,
Expeditious before his/her signal;  and on, and never on,
You illuminate to illuminate sped the messenger-flame.
From Ida to the steeple that the loves of Hermes,
Of Lemnos;  for this motive to the steep sublime
Of Athos, throne of Zeus, the wide blaze burnt.
For this motive, it raised aloft to shoot through the sea,
The touching light, cheering himself/herself/itself in his/her strength,
Sped from the pyre of pine, and it exhorted his/her way,
In gilded glory, as of the new and strange sun,
Before, and it reached the heights to observe of Macistus.
There, without dull delay neither careless sleep,
The observer's sped the news above to turn,
Up to that the watch on the peak of Messapius
It far the glint of flame on the tide of Euripus,
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