Aeschylus' EUMENIDES Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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The twelve judges come forward, one by one, to the urns of decision; the first votes; as each of the others follows, the Leader and Apollo speak alternately.

Leader: I rede ye well, beware! nor put to shame,
In aught, this grievous company of hell.

Apollo: I too would warn you, fear mine oracles-
From Zeus they are,-nor make them void of fruit.

Leader: Presumptuous is thy claim, blood-guilt to judge,
And false henceforth thine oracles shall be.

Apollo: Failed then the counsels of my sire, when turned
Ixion, first of slayers, to his side?

Leader: These are but words; but I, if justice fail me,
Will haunt this land in grim and deadly deed.

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