AIGISTHOS.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams…and know such food is vain.
LEADER.
Go forward and wax fat! Defile the right for this thy little hour!
AIGISTHOS.
I spare thee now. Know well for all this folly thou shalt feel my power.
LEADER.
Aye, vaunt thy greatness, as a bird beside his mate doth vaunt and swell.
CLYTEMNESTRA.
Vain hounds are baying round thee; oh, forget them! Thou and I shall dwell
As Kings in this great House. We two at last will order all things well.
[The Elders and the remains of AGAMEMNON’S retinue retire sullenly, leaving the Spearmen in possession. CLYTEMNESTRA and AIGISTHOS turn and enter the Palace.]
NOTES TO THE AGAMEMNON
The chief characters in the play belong to one family, as is shown by the two genealogies:—
I.
TANTALUS
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Pelops
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Atreus Thyestes
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Agamemnon Menelaus Aigisthos
(= Clytemnestra) (= Helen) (= Clytemnestra)
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Iphigenia Electra Orestes