Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexBell
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
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You really put me in an Aeschylus mood today
"And there they ring the walls, the young,
the lithe, the handsome hold the graves
they won in Troy; the enemy earth
rides over those who conquered."
from Agamemnon,The Oresteia - Aeschylus (translated by Robert Fagles)