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Aeschylus - Agamemnon Lines 1400 1445 Lyrics

Clytaemnestra:
I did it all. I don't deny it, no.
He had no way to flee or fight his destiny

Unwinding the robes from Agamemnon's body, spreading them before the altar where the old
men cluster around them, unified as a chorus once again.

our never-ending, all embracing net, I cast it
wide for the royal haul, I coil him round and round
in the wealth, the robes of doom, and then I strike him
once, twice, and at each stroke he cries in agony
he buckles at the knees and crashes here!
And when he's down I add the third, last blow,
to the Zeus who saves the dead beneath the ground
I send that third blow home in homage like a prayer.
So he goes down, and the life is bursting out of him
great sprays of blood, and the murderous shower
wounds me, dyes me black and I, I revel
like the Earth when the spring rains come down,
the blessed gifts of god, and the new green spear
splits the sheath and rips to birth in glory!
So it stands, elders of Argos gathered here.
Rejoice if you can rejoice - I glory.
And if I'd pour upon his body the libation
it deserves, what wine could match my words?
It is right and more than right. He flooded
the vessel of our proud house with misery,
with the vintage of the curse and now
he drains the dregs. My lord is home at last.
Leader:
You appall me, you, your brazen words -exulting over your fallen king.

Clytaemnestra:
And you,
you try me like some desperate woman. My heart is steel, well you know. Praise me, blame
me as you choose. It's all one. Here is Agamemnon, my husband made a corpse by this right
hand - a masterpiece of Justice.
Done is done.

Chorus:
Woman! - what poison cropped from the soil or strained from the heaving sea, what nursed
you, drove you insane? You brave the curse of Greece.
You have cut away and flung away and now the people cast you off to exile,
broken with our hate.

Clytaemnestra:
And now you sentence me? -you banish me from the city, curses breathing down my neck?
But he -name one charge you brought against him then. He thought no more of it than
killing a beast,
and his flocks were rich, teeming in their fleece, but he sacrificed his own child, our daughter,
the agony I laboured into love to charm away the savage winds of Thrace.
Didn't the law demand you banish him?