Zeus

  by: Aeschylus (c. 525-456 B.C.)

    translated by E. H. Plumptre

Chorus from Agamemnon

O Zeus, whoe'er Thou be,
If that name please thee well,
By that I call on Thee;
For weighing all things else I fail to tell
Of any name but Zeus;
If once for all I seek
Of all my haunting, troubled thoughts a truce,
That name I still must speak.

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