Agamemnon

Therefore I say, and swear it with a great oath - nay, by this my scepter which shall sprout neither leaf nor shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains - for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees [ themistes] of heaven - so surely and solemnly do I swear that hereafter they sh …

I adjure you by the gods, do not compel me to sin against you, or sin yourself.

"When Persephone had dismissed the female ghosts [ psukhai] in all directions, the ghost [ psukhê] of Agamemnon son of Atreus came sadly up to me, surrounded by those who had perished with him in the house of Aigisthos.

'Zeus most glorious, most great, lord of the dark clouds, dwelling in the heaven, let not the sun set nor darkness come on, before I cast down headlong the smoke-blackened halls of Priam, and burn the gates with consuming fire, and tear about Hector's breast his tunic, cleft with the bronze;

O father, Agamemnon, you lie in Hades, by the butchery of your wife and Aegisthus.

did not women slay the sons of Aegyptus, and utterly clear Lemnos of men?

O father, in your home of gloomy night, your son Orestes calls you to come to the rescue of the destitute.

Cassandra, whom the lord Apollo left to be a virgin, frenzied maid, has been forced by Agamemnon, in contempt of the god’s ordinance and of piety, to a dishonored wedlock.