He is borne away who bears away: And the killer has all to pay. And this remains while Zeus is remaining, The doer shall suffer in time — for, such his ordaining. Who may cast out of the House its cursed brood? The race is to Até glued! KLUTAIMNESTRA. Thou hast gone into this oracle With a true result. For me, then, — I will — To the Daimon of the Pleisthenidai Making an oath — with all these things comply Hard as they are to bear. For the rest — Going from out this House, a guest, May he wear some other family To nought, with the deaths of kin by kin! And, — keeping a little part of my goods, — Wholly am I contented in Having expelled from the royal House These frenzied moods The mutually-murderous. AIGISTHOS. O light propitious of day justice-bringing! I may say truly, now, that men’s avengers, The gods from high, of earth behold the sorrows — Seeing, as I have, i’ the spun robes of the Erinues, This man here lying, — sight to me how pleasant! — His father’s hands’ contrivances repaying. For Atreus, this land’s lord, of this man father, Thuestes, my own father — to speak clearly — His brother too, — being i’ the rule contested, — Drove forth to exile from both town and household: And, coming back, to the hearth turned, a suppliant,