奠酒人__AESCHYLUS.pdf

英文名著3000 本 THE CHOEPHORI by Aeschylus translated by E.D.A. Moreshead 1 英文名著3000 本 CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY 450 BC ORESTES, son of AGAMEMNON and CLYTEMNESTRA CHORUS OF SLAVE WOMEN ELECTRA, sister of ORESTES A NURSE CLYTEMNESTRA AEGISTHUS AN ATTENDANT PYLADES, friend of ORESTES (SCENE:-By the tomb of Agamemnon near the palace in Argos. ORESTES and PYLADES enter, dressed as travellers. ORESTES carries 2 英文名著3000 本 two locks of hair in his hand.) ORESTES Lord of the shades and patron of the realm That erst my father swayed, list now my prayer, Hermes, and save me with thine aiding arm, Me who from banishment returning stand On this my country; lo, my foot is set On this grave-mound, and herald-like, as thou, Once and again, I bid my father hear. And these twin locks, from mine head shorn, I bring, And one to Inachus the river-god, My young lifes nurturer, I dedicate, And one in sign of mourning unfulfilled I lay, though late, on this my fathers grave. For O my father, not beside thy corse Stood I to wail thy death, nor was my hand Stretched out to bear thee forth to burial. 3 英文名著3000 本 What sight is yonder? what this woman-throng Hitherward coming, by their sable garb Made manifest as mourners? What hath chanced? Doth some new sorrow hap within the home? Or rightly may I deem that they draw near Bearing libations, such as soothe the ire Of dead men angered, to my fathers grave? Nay, such they are indeed; for I descry Electra mine own sister pacing hither, In moody grief conspicuous