But when the wound dried up, after the blood stopped flowing, Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, was pierced by pain. 350 As when a piercing, cruel arrow strikes a woman in the agony of labor, 270 shot by the goddesses of labor pangs, the Eileithuias, who are Hera’s daughters, in charge of cruel birth-pangs—even so sharp pains pierced Agamemnon.
