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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
Him for his corn-fed mettle I will drive<br />
Not as a trace-horse, light-caparisoned,<br />
But to the shafts with heaviest harness bound.<br />
Famine, the grim mate of the dungeon dark,<br />
Shall look on him and shall behold him tame.<br />
LEADER<br />
Thou losel soul, was then thy strength too slight<br />
To deal in murder, while a woman's hand,<br />
Staining and shaming Argos and its gods,<br />
Availed to slay him? Ho, if anywhere<br />
The light of life smite on Orestes' eyes,<br />
Let him, returning by some guardian fate,<br />
Hew down with force her paramour and her!<br />
AEGISTHUS<br />
How thy word and act shall issue, thou shalt shortly understand.<br />
LEADER<br />
Up to action, O my comrades! for the fight is hard at hand.<br />
Swift, your right hands to the sword hilt! bare the weapon as for strife--<br />
AEGISTHUS<br />
Lo! I too am standing ready, hand on hilt for death or life.<br />
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