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Aegisthus’s watchman

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Aegisthus’s watchman
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·Reported

Aegisthus keeps a watchman posted continually with a promised reward of two talents of gold.

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“a watchman whom Aegisthus kept always on the watch, and to whom he had promised two talents of gold”

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·Reported
“a watchman whom Aegisthus kept always on the watch”

Passage preview

Book 4 · Passage 44

‘‘Now there was a watchman whom Aegisthus kept always on the watch, and to whom he had promised two talents of gold. This man had been looking out for a whole year to make sure that Agamemnon did not give him the slip and prepare war; when, therefore, this man saw Agamemnon go by, he went and told Aegisthus, who at once began to lay a plot for him. He picked twenty of his bravest warriors and placed them in ambuscade on one side the cloister, while on the opposite side he prepared a banquet. Then he sent his chariots and horsemen to Agamemnon, and invited him to the feast, but he meant foul play. He got him there, all unsuspicious of the doom that was awaiting him, and killed him when the banquet was over as though he were butchering an ox in the shambles; not one of Agamemnon’s followers was left alive, nor yet one of Aegisthus’, but they were all killed there in the cloisters.’