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Χορός
855Ζεῦ Ζεῦ, τί λέγω, πόθεν ἄρξωμαι
τάδ᾽ ἐπευχομένη κἀπιθεάζουσ᾽,
ὑπὸ δ᾽ εὐνοίας
πῶς ἴσον εἰποῦσ᾽ ἀνύσωμαι;
νῦν γὰρ μέλλουσι μιανθεῖσαι
860πειραὶ κοπάνων ἀνδροδαΐκτων
ἢ πάνυ θήσειν Ἀγαμεμνονίων
οἴκων ὄλεθρον διὰ παντός,
ἢ πῦρ καὶ φῶς ἐπ᾽ ἐλευθερίᾳ
δαίων ἀρχάς τε πολισσονόμους
865πατέρων θ᾽ ἕξει μέγαν ὄλβον.
τοιάνδε πάλην μόνος ὢν ἔφεδρος
δισσοῖς μέλλει θεῖος Ὀρέστης
ἅψειν. εἴη δ᾽ ἐπὶ νίκῃ.
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2.Libation Bearers. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
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