Thursday, July 09, 2020

 

Rancorous Hate

Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 391-396 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth):
CHORUS
Full against my heart's prow wrath bloweth keen in rancorous hate.
ELECTRA
And when will mighty Zeus bring down his hand upon them — ah me! — and cleave their heads asunder?

ΧΟΡΟΣ
πάροιθεν δὲ πρῴρας
δριμὺς ἄηται κραδίας
θυμὸς ἔγκοτον στύγος.
ΗΛΕΚΤΡΑ
καί πότ᾽ ἂν ἀμφιθαλὴς
Ζεὺς ἐπὶ χεῖρα βάλοι,        395
φεῦ φεῦ, κάρανα δαΐξας;



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