Aeschylus' EUMENIDES Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Orestes: Yea, and thro' him less ill I fared, till now.

Leader: If the vote grip thee, thou shalt change that word.

Orestes: Strong is my hope; my buried sire shall aid.

Leader: Go to now, trust the dead, a matricide!

Orestes: Yea, for in her combined two stains of sin.

Leader: How? speak this clearly to the judges' mind.

Orestes: Slaying her husband, she did slay my sire.

Leader: Therefore thou livest; death assoils her deed.

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