Euripides' ORESTES Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Menelaus: Dost thou deny having slain her, saying this out of wanton
insult?

Orestes: Yes, I do deny it to my sorrow. Would God-

Menelaus: Would God-what? Thou provokest my fears.

Orestes: I had hurled to Hades the pollution of Hellas!

Menelaus: Surrender my wife's dead body, that I may bury her.

Orestes: Ask the gods for her; but thy daughter I will slay.

Menelaus: This matricide is bent on adding murder to murder.

Orestes: This champion of his sire, betrayed by thee to death.

Menelaus: Art thou not content with the stain of the mother's blood
which is on thee?

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