# Aeschylus, Agamemnon 825-828

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Aeschylus, Agamemnon

[825] ἵππου νεοσσός, ἀσπιδοστρόφος λεώς  
[826] πήδημʼ ὀρούσας ἀμφὶ Πλειάδων δύσιν  
[827] ὑπερθορὼν δὲ πύργον ὠμηστὴς λέων  
[828] ἄδην ἔλειξεν αἵματος τυραννικοῦ

**my rough translation**  
young horse, shield bearing people  
leap, dash around the setting Pleiades  
'leaped the tower of the savage people/lion  
lick up one’s fill of the blood of tyranny  
  
  
This verse is of interest to me and unsure if λεώς and λέω is λαός 'people or λέων 'lion

"ἵππου νεοσσός is the trojan horse here but why is it νεοσσός, is this suppose to be Lt. equuleus/eculeus; little horse, a constellation.

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827 ὠμηστὴς λέων, nominative. Lion not people. And not young horse. Respect the grammar!

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> 827 ὠμηστὴς λέων, nominative. Lion not people. And not young horse. Respect the grammar!

Especially with a word like ὠμηστὴς, a frequent association of lions. “Savage” for the word is fine enough translation, but it really emphasizes the act of eating raw meat (thus synonymous with ὠμοφάγος, another word that is used with lions).

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**Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/aeschylus-agamemnon-825-828/20678/4 "2025-09-21T02:46:51Z")

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I translated & performed the Agamemnon a few years ago.

Here was my translation of the passage:

Now see the wonder of the city burn in smoke,  
for she is torn apart in storms of living madness,  
sending her richness forth –  
the fragrance of her dying and the ash of her fertility.  
And great must be the gratitude we render to the gods in memory of this.  
For woman is  
the city pierced  
into a desolation of the dust  
by Argos and the beast  
born of the horse –  
O people raise your shields!  
The leap of violence and the rush  
and fall of stars  
over the towers  
full of the lion.  
The flesh is eaten of their king,  
his blood is drunk.