Aeschylus's CHOEPHORI (Libation Bearers) Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Clytemnestra enters.

Clytemnestra: What ails thee, raising this ado for us?

Attendant: I say the dead are come to slay the living.

Clytemnestra: Alack, I read thy riddles all too clear-
We slew by craft and by like craft shall die.
Swift, bring the axe that slew my lord of old;
I'll know anon or death or victory-
So stands the curse, so I confront it here. Orestes rushes from the palace; his sword dripping with blood. Pylades is with him.

Orestes: Thee too I seek: for him what's done will serve.

Clytemnestra: Woe, woe! Aegisthus, spouse and champion, slain!

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