led his doom, albeit hated by Athene,
[Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] had he not let a proud word fall in the fatal darkening of his heart. He said that in the gods’ despite he had escaped the great gulf of the sea; and Poseidon heard his loud boasting, and presently caught up his trident into his strong hands, and
[Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] smote the rock Gyraean and cleft it in twain. And the one part abode in his place, but the other fell into the sea, the broken piece whereon Aias sat at the first, when his heart was darkened. And the rock bore him down into the vast and heaving deep; so there he perished when he had drunk of the salt sea water. But thy brother verily escaped the fates and avoided them in his hollow ships, for queen Hera saved him. But now when he was like soon to reach
[Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] the steep mount of Malea, lo, the storm wind snatched him away and bore him over the teeming deep, making great moan, to the border of the country whereof old Thyestes dwelt, but now Aegisthus abode there, the son of Thyestes. But when thence too there showed a good prospect of safe returning, and the gods changed the wind to a fair gale, and they had reached home, then verily did Agamemnon set foot with joy upon his country’s soil, and as he touched his own land he kissed it, and many were the hot tears he let fall, for he saw his land and
[Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] was glad. And it was so that the watchman spied him from his tower, the watchman whom crafty Aegisthus had led and posted there, promising
[Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] him for a reward two talents of gold. Now he kept watch for the space of
[Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] a year, lest Agamemnon should pass by him when he looked not, and mind him of his wild prowess. So he went to the house to bear the tidings
[Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] to the shepherd of the people. And straightway Aegisthus contrived a cunning treason. He chose out twenty of the best men in the township, and set an ambush, and on the further side of the hall he commanded to prepare a feast. Then with chariot and horses he went to bid to the feast Agamemnon, shepherd of the people; but caitiff thoughts were in his heart. He brought him up to his house, all unwitti
