Note ’tis a rite of old — THE AGAMEMNON
Gilbert Murray translation
[P. 10, l. 215, ’Tis a Rite of old.]—Literally “it is Themis.” Human sacrifice had had a place in the primitive religion of Greece; hence Agamemnon could not reject the demand of the soldiers as an obvious crime. See Rise of Greek Epic, pp. 150-157.