[54] Reading, totâ Troiâ sepulte.

ACT IV

[Enter Agamemnon. He is met and greeted by his wife, who returns into the palace.]

Agamemnon: At last in safety am I home returned.

Oh, hail, belovéd land! I bring thee spoil

From many barbarous tribes; and Troy at length,

So long the mistress of the haughty east,785

Submits herself as suppliant to thee.

But see, Cassandra faints, and trembling falls

With nerveless form. Ye slaves with speed uplift her;