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Aeschylus, Agamemnon 160-83

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. J. Beattie
Affiliation:
Edinburgh University

Extract

Tr.: ‘Zeus, whoe'er he be, if so to be called is pleasing to him, thus do I name him—I have naught, when I weigh all things in the balance, to count their equal, save Zeus if it behoves me to strike truly this vain burden born of anxiet

‘He that at the outset was great, flourishing with all-conquering boldness, will not stay to accomplish anything; he, as soon as he was born, met his conqueror and is gone. But a man who willingly hails Zeua as victor will achieve wisdom in full measure—

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1955

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page 20 note 1 The first drafts of this article were read by Professor Page and Mr. Rattenbury, to whom I am grateful for many criticisms. If errors still abound, I alone am to blame. I am now inclined to consider , gnomic aorist, as an alternative to at 170, and also for in the same line.