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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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