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Libation Bearers (690-705)

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I do not know. But his parent should know the truth.
691
Clytaemestra
Oh no! Your story spells our utter undoing. O curse that haunts this house, so hard to wrestle down: how far forward you look! Even what was laid well out of harms way you bring down with your well-aimed shafts from far off,
and you strip me of those I love, utterly wretched as I am. And now Orestes: he was indeed prudent in keeping his foot out of the mire of destruction, but now mark down as having abandoned us what was once the one hope in our house of a cure for its fine revelry.[*]
Orestes
As for me, I am sure that with hosts so prosperous I would rather have been made known and welcomed for favorable news. For where is goodwill greater than from guest to host? Yet to my mind it would have been irreverent
not to fulfill for friends a charge like this when I was bound by promise and hospitality pledged to me.

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