Cassandra: Pah! the house fumes with stench and spilth of blood.
Chorus: How? 'tis the smell of household offerings.

lines from Agamemnon by Aeschylus, translated by E.D.A. Morshead
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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus in Agamemnon
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus in Agamemnon
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus in Agamemnon
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