Laudator Temporis Acti

Aeschylus, Agamemnon 717-731 (tr. Alan H. Sommerstein):

Just so a man once
reared in his home an infant lion,
fond of the nipple but deprived of its milk,
in its undeveloped time of life
tame, well loved by children
and a delight to the old:
it was much in his arms
like a young suckling baby,
gazing bright-eyed at his hand
and fawning when hunger pressed it.
But in time it displayed the character
inherited from its parents; it returned
thanks to its nurturers
by making, with destructive slaughter of sheep,
a feast, unbidden.

ἔθρεψεν δὲ λέοντος ἶ-
νιν δόμοις ἀγάλακτον οὕ-
τως ἀνὴρ φιλόμαστον,
ἐν βιότου προτελείοις        720
ἅμερον, εὐφιλόπαιδα,
καὶ γεραροῖς ἐπίχαρτον·
πολέα δ᾿ ἔσκ᾿ ἐν ἀγκάλαις
νεοτρόφου τέκνου δίκαν,
φαιδρωπὸς ποτὶ χεῖρα σαί-        725
νων τε γαστρὸς ἀνάγκαις.
βχρονισθεὶς δ᾿ ἀπέδειξεν ἦ-
θος τὸ πρὸς τοκέων· χάριν
γὰρ τροφεῦσιν ἀμείβων
μηλοφόνοισι σὺν ἄταις        730
δαῖτ᾿ ἀκέλευστος ἔτευξεν.

717-718 λέοντος ἶνιν Conington: λέοντα σίνιν codd.

Eduard Fraenkel ad loc. (vol. II, p. 338): Liddell-Scott-Jones, s.v. ἶνις: Liddell-Scott-Jones, s.v. σίνις: Hat tip: Eric Thomson.