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 oracleWith a true result. For me, then, — I will— To the Daimon of the PleisthenidaiMaking an oath — with all these things complyHard as they are to bear. For the rest —Going from out this House, a guest,May he wear some other familyTo nought, with the deaths of kin by kin!And, — keeping a little part of my goods, —Wholly am I contented inHaving expelled from the royal HouseThese frenzied moodsThe 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,