Page:Aeschylus.djvu/103

Rh

Disturbed by such a dream, the queen had gone to sacrifice to the gods, but there a new omen had presented itself—an eagle defeated by a hawk, and flying for sanctuary to the altar of the Sun. She cannot but interpret these things as portending some misfortune to her son, and she feels that on his success in war his prestige at home, and perhaps his throne, depends. By the advice of the elders, she promises to seek assistance from the gods, and in particular to pray for help to the shade of her dead husband Darius. Meanwhile she asks the old question that had so irritated Athenian pride—"Where, in what clime, the towers of Athens rise?"