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Orestes (1280-1311)

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Your report agrees with mine; there is no noise here either.
Electra
Well then, I will listen in the gateway.
Chorus
(Calling through the door.)You within the house, why are you delaying to spill your victims blood,
now that all is quiet?
1286
Electraspoken
They do not hear; alas for my troubles! Can it be that her beauty has blunted their swords?
sung
Soon some Argive in full armor, hurrying
to her rescue, will attack the palace.
spoken
Keep a better look-out; it is not a contest of sitting still; turn about, some here, some there.
Chorussung
I am looking everywhere in turn along the road.
Helenwithin
Oh, Pelasgian Argos! I am being foully murdered.
Chorus
Did you hear? The men have put their hand to the slaughter.
It is Helen screaming, at a guess.
Electrasung
O eternal might of Zeus, of Zeus, only come to help my friends!
Helenwithin
Menelaus, I am dying, but you do not help me, though you are near.
1302
Electrasung
Slay her, kill her, destroy her! Stab with your twin double-edged swords
the woman who left her father, left her husband, and killed so many of the men of Hellas, slain beside the river-bank, where tears rained down, by the iron darts
all round the eddies of Scamander.
1311
Chorus Leader
Hush! hush! I caught the sound of a foot-fall on the road near the house.

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