Thursday, July 09, 2020
Rancorous Hate
Aeschylus, Libation Bearers
391-396 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth):
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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;
