I mingled sire with grandsire, sons with grandsons;
Yea, monstrous! husband and father did I join,35
And drove the day back to the shades of night.
But fate at last, though doubtful, long deferred,
Hath had regard unto my evil plight,
And brought the day of vengeance near; for lo,
This king of kings, this leader of the Greeks,
This Agamemnon comes, whose royal flag40
A thousand Grecian vessels following
Once filled the Trojan waters with their sails.