Agamemnon: Aye, and that those maidens at home should not be left
alone.
Clytaemnestra: They are in safe keeping, pent in their maiden-bowers.
Agamemnon: Obey.
Clytaemnestra: Nay, by the goddess-queen of Argos! go, manage matters
out of doors; but in the house it is my place to decide what is proper
for maidens at their wedding. Exit.
Agamemnon: Woe is me! my efforts are baffled; I am disappointed in
my hope, anxious as I was to get my wife out of sight; foiled at every
point, I form my plots and subtle schemes against my best-beloved.
But I will go, in spite of all, with Calchas the priest, to inquire
the goddess's good pleasure, fraught with ill-luck as it is to me,
and with trouble to Hellas. He who is wise should keep in his house
a good and useful wife or none at all. (Exit.)
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