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the choephori-第7部分
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Lo; freedom's light hath come!
(The central doors of the palace open; disclosing ORESTES
standing over the corpses of AEGISTHUS and CLYTEMNESTRA; in
one hand he holds his sword; in the other the robe in which
AGAMEMNON was entangled and slain。)
ORESTES
There lies our country's twofold tyranny;
My father's slayers; spoilers of my home。
Erst were they royal; sitting on the throne;
And loving are they yet;…their common fate
Tells the tale truly; shows their trothplight firm。
They swore to work mine ill…starred father's death;
They swore to die together; 'tis fulfilled。
O ye who stand; this great doom's witnesses;
Behold this too; the dark device which bound
My sire unhappy to his death;…behold
The mesh which trapped his hands; enwound his feet
Stand round; unfold it…'tis the trammel…net
That wrapped a chieftain; hold it that he see;
The father…not my sire; but he whose eye
Is judge of all things; the all…seeing Sun!
Let him behold my mother's damned deed;
Then let him stand; when need shall be to me;
Witness that justly I have sought and slain
My mother; blameless was Aegisthus' doom…
He died the death law bids adulterers die。
But she who plotted this accursed thing
To slay her lord; by whom she bare beneath
Her girdle once the burden of her babes;
Beloved erewhile; now turned to hateful foes…
What deem ye of her? or what venomed thing;
Sea…snake or adder; had more power than she
To poison with a touch the flesh unscarred?
So great her daring; such her impious will。
How name her; if I may not speak a curse?
A lion…springe! a laver's swathing cloth;
Wrapping a dead man; twining round his feet…
A net; a trammel; an entangling robe?
Such were the weapon of some strangling thief;
The terror of the road; a cut…purse hound…
With such device full many might he kill;
Full oft exult in heat of villainy。
Ne'er have my house so cursed an indweller…
Heaven send me; rather; childless to be slain!
CHORUS (chanting)
Woe for each desperate deed!
Woe for the queen; with shame of life bereft!
And ah; for him who still is left;
Madness; dark blossom of a bloody seed!
ORESTES
Did she the deed or not? this robe gives proof;
Imbrued with blood that bathed Aegisthus' sword:
Look; how the spurted stain combines with time
To blur the many dyes that once adorned
Its pattern manifold! I now stand here;
Made glad; made sad with blood; exulting; wailing…
Hear; O thou woven web that slew my sire!
I grieve for deed and death and all my home…
Victor; pollution's damned stain for prize。
CHORUS (chanting)
Alas; that none of mortal men
Can pass his life untouched by pain!
Behold; one woe is here…
Another loometh near。
ORESTES
Hark ye and learn…for what the end shall be
For me I know not: breaking from the curb
My spirit whirls me off; a conquered prey;
Borne as a charioteer by steeds distraught
Far from the course; and madness in my breast
Burneth to chant its song; and leap; and rave…
Hark ye and learn; friends; ere my reason goes!
I say that rightfully I slew my mother;
A thing God…scorned; that foully slew my sire。
And chiefest wizard of the spell that bound me
Unto this deed I name the Pythian seer
Apollo; who foretold that if I slew;
The guilt of murder done should pass from me;
But if I spared; the fate that should be mine
I dare not blazon forth…the bow of speech
Can reach not to the mark; that doom to tell。
And now behold me; how with branch and crown
I pass; a suppliant made meet to go
Unto Earth's midmost shrine; the holy ground
Of Loxias; and that renowned light
Of ever…burning fire; to 'scape the doom
Of kindred murder: to no other shrine
(So Loxias bade) may I for refuge turn。
Bear witness; Argives; in the after time;
How came on me this dread fatality。
Living; I pass a banished wanderer hence;
To leave in death the memory of this cry。
LEADER OF THE CHORUS
Nay; but the deed is well; link not thy lips
To speech ill…starred; nor vent ill…boding words…
Who hast to Argos her full freedom given;
Lopping two serpents' heads with timely blow。
ORESTES
Look; look; alas!
Handmaidens; see…what Gorgon shapes throng up
Dusky their robes and all their hair enwound…
Snakes coiled with snakes…off; off;…I must away!
LEADER
Most loyal of all sons unto thy sire;
What visions thus distract thee? Hold; abide;
Great was thy victory; and shalt thou fear?
ORESTES
These are no dreams; void shapes of haunting ill;
But clear to sight another's hell…hounds come!
LEADER
Nay; the fresh bloodshed still imbrues thine hands;
And thence distraction sinks into thy soul。
ORESTES
O king Apollo…see; they swarm and throng…
Black blood of hatred dripping from their eyes!
LEADER
One remedy thou hast; go; touch the shrine
Of Loxias; and rid thee of these woes。
ORESTES
Ye can behold them not; but I behold them。
Up and away! I dare abide no more。
(He rushes out。)
LEADER
Farewell then as thou mayst;…the god thy friend
Guard thee and aid with chances favouring。
CHORUS (chanting)
Behold; the storm of woe divine
That raves and beats on Atreus' line
Its great third blast hath blown。
First was Thyestes' loathly woe
The rueful feast of long ago;
On children's flesh; unknown。
And next the kingly chief's despite;
When he who led the Greeks to fight
Was in the bath hewn down。
And now the offspring of the race
Stands in the third; the saviour's place;
To save…or to consume?
O whither; ere it be fulfilled;
Ere its fierce blast be hushed and stilled;
Shall blow the wind of doom?
THE END
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