Aeschylus, Fragments 1–22: Athamas to Glaucus of Potniae

The one was cast into the three-legged cauldron of the house, that ever kept its place above the fire.

Taking out with bronze flesh-hooks

A. What name, then, shall mortals put upon them?

B. Zeus commandeth that they be called the holy Palici.

A. And shall the name “Palici” abide as rightly given?

B. Aye, for they shall “come back” from darkness to this light.

’Twas thy fate to be my wife; mine to be thy husband.

And for my part I [wish] thy nards and balsam too

Both darts and looped javelins and heaped missiles

Capaneus is left me with the remains of his lightning-smitten limbs that the thunderbolt had left behind (?)

Where is Argo’s sacred speaking beam?

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

The bull was like to butt the goat with his horns. . . .

Old chips and sooty ashes on the altar

For his gleaming torch doth flood with flashing light Pangaeus’ headland, silver-seamed.

[A creature, like unto a man, living in the water]

Shaggy his moustache and his beard’s base

He that ate the ever-living, imperishable grass

And I taste, methinks, the ever-living grass.

The bend at Euboïs about the headland of Cenaean Zeus, close to the tomb of wretched Lichas

And thereafter going out past Diad Athens

Having washed my body in fair baths, I came to steep-banked Himeras.

“A prosperous journey!” is the first wish we pour forth from our lips.

Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

For chariot on chariot, corpse upon corpse, horse on horse, had been heaped in confusion.