Aeschylus's CHOEPHORI (Libation Bearers) Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Orestes: How shall I 'scape my father's, sparing thee?

Clytemnestra: Living, I cry as to a tomb, unheard.

Orestes: My father's fate ordains this doom for thee.

Clytemnestra: Ah me! this snake it was I bore and nursed.

Orestes: Ay, right prophetic was thy visioned fear.
Shameful thy deed was-die the death of shame! He drives her into the house before him.

Leader of the Chorus: Lo, even for these I mourn, a double death:
Yet since Orestes, driven on by doom,
Thus crowns the height of murders manifold,
I say, 'tis well-that not in night and death
Should sink the eye and light of this our home.

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