Death & Dying
Epitaph I. — For Agamemnon
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book VI. — Epitaphs on the Heroes who took part in the Trojan War
I, THE son of Atreus, the king of kings, the avenger of my brother's wife, met my end at my own wife's hands. What, then, avails it that in my grief I punished Helen's ravisher, since Clytemnaestra slays the chastiser of adultery?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Epitaph I. — For Agamemnon.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/66/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Epitaph I. — For Agamemnon.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/66/.
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