Aeschylus's CHOEPHORI (Libation Bearers) Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Orestes: The price of shame; I taunt thee not more plainly.

Clytemnestra: Nay, but recount thy father's lewdness too.

Orestes: Home-keeping, chide not him who toils without.

Clytemnestra: 'Tis hard for wives to live as widows, child.

Orestes: The absent husband toils for them at home.

Clytemnestra: Thou growest fain to slay thy mother, child.

Orestes: Nay, 'tis thyself wilt slay thyself, not I.

Clytemnestra: Beware thy mother's vengeful hounds from hell.

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