Oresteia

Since the beacon of night has appeared with glad tidings.
Hail, lamp of the night, thou that bringest a light as of day,
and ordainest the setting of many a dance
in Argos, in thanksgiving for this event.
25 Io! Io!
I signal clearly to Agamemnon’s wife,
that she should rise from her couch with all speed
and uplift a shout of jubilance in the halls
in welcome of this beacon, original: "ἐπορθιάζειν" if in very truth the city of Ilium
30 has been taken, as the signal-fire clearly reveals.
I myself will also lead the overture in the dance;
for I shall count the lucky throw of my masters
as my own, since this beacon has thrown me treble sixes.
May it be that the lord of the house arrives
35 and that I may clasp his welcome hand in mine.
Of the rest I am silent; a great ox A proverbial expression for enforced silence; literally, "a great ox walks upon my tongue." has stepped upon my tongue.
The house itself, if it could find a voice,
would speak most clearly; for I willingly speak
to those who understand, and to those who do not, I have forgotten.

40 This is now the tenth year since Priam’s
mighty adversary,
King Menelaus and Agamemnon,
the twin-throned and twin-sceptred from Zeus