Aeschylus' EUMENIDES Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Athena: I say that oaths shall not enforce the wrong.

Leader: Then test the cause, judge and award the right.

Athena: Will ye to me then this decision trust?

Leader: Yea, reverencing true child of worthy sire.

Athena:
to Orestes
O man unknown, make thou thy plea in turn.
Speak forth thy land, thy lineage, and thy woes;
Then, if thou canst, avert this bitter blame-
If, as I deem, in confidence of right
Thou sittest hard beside my holy place,
Clasping this statue, as Ixion sat,
A sacred suppliant for Zeus to cleanse,-
To all this answer me in words made plain.

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