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Old 03-27-2017, 09:00 AM   #3527
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CHORUS
As for what’s to come—you’ll know that
when it comes. So let it be.
To know would be to grieve ahead of time.
It’s clear whatever is to happen
will happen, like tomorrow’s dawn.

from Agamemnon, part of The Oresteia by Aeschylus.

Modern translation by Ian Johnston


Nice, here is the same passage in the translation by Robert Fagles:

"And we will know the future when it comes.
Greet it too early, weep too soon.
It all comes clear in the light of day."
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