Aeschylus's CHOEPHORI (Libation Bearers) Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Clytemnestra: I nursed thee young; must I forego mine eld?

Orestes: Thou slew'st my father; shalt thou dwell with me?

Clytemnestra: Fate bore a share in these things, O my child

Orestes: Fate also doth provide this doom for thee.

Clytemnestra: Beware, O child, a parent's dying curse.

Orestes: A parent who did cast me out to ill!

Clytemnestra: Not cast thee out, but to a friendly home.

Orestes: Born free, I was by twofold bargain sold.

Clytemnestra: Where then the price that I received for thee?

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