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Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments

Note 383 — AGAMEMNON

E. H. (Edward Hayes) Plumptre translation

The third libation at all feasts was to Zeus, as the Preserver or Guardian Deity. Clytæmnestra boasts that her third blow was as an offering to a God of other kind, to Him who had in his keeping not the living, but the dead.

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