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Away with you, cruel
and utterly brazen mother! You dared to give your husband a most cruel burial: unmourned, without lamentation, a king unattended by his people.
434
Orestes
Ah me, your words spell utter dishonor.
Yet with the help of the gods, and with the help of my own hands, will she not atone for the dishonor she did my father? Let me only take her life, then let me die!
439
Chorus
Yes, and I would have you know he was brutally mangled.[*]

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