<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="choral"><sp><l n="1550">From the truth of his mind as he toils intent?
</l></sp><milestone unit="card" n="1551"/><sp><speaker>KLUTAIMNESTRA.</speaker><l n="1551">It belongs not to thee to declare</l><l n="1552">This object of care!</l><l n="1552a">By us did he fall — down there!</l><l n="1553">Did he die — down there! and down, no less,</l><l n="1554">We will bury him there, and not beneath</l><l n="1554a">The wails of the household over his death:</l><l n="1555">But Iphigeneia, — with kindliness, —</l><l n="1556">His daughter, — as the case requires,</l><l n="1557">Facing him full, at the rapid-flowing</l><l n="1558">Passage of Groans shall — both hands throwing</l><l n="1559">Around him — kiss that kindest of sires!
</l></sp><milestone unit="card" n="1560"/><sp><speaker>CHOROS.</speaker><l n="1560">This blame comes in the place of blame:</l><l n="1561">Hard battle it is to judge each claim.</l><l n="1562"><q type="emph">He is borne away who bears away:</q></l><l n="1562a"><q type="emph" rend="merge">And the killer has all to pay.</q></l><l n="1563">And this remains while Zeus is remaining,</l><l n="1564"><q type="emph">The doer shall suffer in time</q> — for, such his ordaining.</l><l n="1565">Who may cast out of the House its cursed brood?</l><l n="1566">The race is to Até glued!
</l></sp><milestone unit="card" n="1567"/><sp><speaker>KLUTAIMNESTRA.</speaker><l n="1567">Thou hast gone into this oracle</l><l n="1568">With a true result. For me, then, — I will</l><l n="1569">— To the Daimon of the Pleisthenidai</l><l n="1570">Making an oath — with all these things comply</l><l n="1571">Hard as they are to bear. For the rest —</l><l n="1572">Going from out this House, a guest,</l></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>