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Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments

Note 330 — AGAMEMNON

E. H. (Edward Hayes) Plumptre translation

Possibly an allusion to Pandora's box. Here, too, Hope alone was left, but it only came up to where the curve of the rim began, not to its top. The imagery is drawn from the older method of voting, in which (as in Eumenides, v. 678) the votes for condemnation and acquittal were cast into separate urns.

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