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Cassandra
[1080] Apollo, Apollo! God of the Ways,1my destroyer! For you have destroyed me—and utterly—this second time.2 Chorus
I think that she is about to prophesy about her own miseries. The divine gift still abides even in the soul of one enslaved.
1 Cassandra sees an image of Apollo, the protector on journeys, close to the door leading to the street （ἀγυιά）.
2 Ἀπόλλων is here derived from Ἀπόλλυμι, “destroy”—nomen omen. The god had “destroyed” her the first time in making vain his gift of prophecy （1209 ff.）; whereby she became the object of derision in Troy.
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2.Agamemnon. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
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