<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg005.perseus-eng4" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="episode"><sp><l n="1396">That would be right — right over and above, too!</l><l n="1397">The cup of evils in the house he, having</l><l n="1398">Filled with such curses, himself coming drinks of.</l></sp><sp><speaker>CHOROS.</speaker><l n="1399">We wonder at thy tongue: since bold-mouthed truly</l><l n="1400">Is she who in such speech boasts o’er her husband I</l></sp><sp><speaker>KLUTAIMNESTRA.</speaker><l n="1401">Ye test me as I were a witless woman:</l><l n="1402">But I — with heart intrepid — to you knowers</l><l n="1403">Say (and thou — if thou wilt or praise or blame me,</l><l n="1404">Comes to the same) — this man is Agamemnon,</l><l n="1405">My husband, dead, the work of the right hand here,</l><l n="1406">Ay, of a just artificer: so things are.</l></sp></div><milestone unit="card" n="1407"/><div type="textpart" subtype="choral"><sp><speaker>CHOROS.</speaker><l n="1407">What evil, O woman, food or drink, earth-bred</l><l n="1408">Or sent from the flowing sea,</l><l n="1408a">Of such having fed</l><l n="1409">Didst thou set on thee</l><l n="1409a">This sacrifice</l><l n="1409b">And popular cries</l><l n="1410">Of a curse on thy head?</l><l n="1410a">Off thou hast thrown him, off hast cut</l><l n="1410b">The man from the city: but —</l><l n="1410c">Off from the city thyself shalt be</l><l n="1411">Cut — to the citizens</l><l n="1411a">A hate immense!
</l></sp><milestone unit="card" n="1412"/><sp><speaker>KLUTAIMNESTRA.</speaker><l n="1412">Now, indeed, thou adjudgest exile to me,</l><l n="1413">And citizens’ hate, and to have popular curses:</l><l n="1414">Nothing of this against the man here bringing,</l></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>