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Libation Bearers (886-893)

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I tell you the dead are killing the living.[*]
Clytaemestra
Ah! Indeed I grasp the meaning of the riddle. We are to perish by treachery, just as we committed murder. Someone give me a battle-axe, and quickly! Let us know if we are victors or vanquished:
for I have even come to this in this wretched business. Exit Servant. The door is opened and the corpse of Aegisthus is discovered. Nearby stands Orestes, and at a distance Pylades
Orestes
It is you I seek. He over there has had enough.
Clytaemestra
Oh no! My beloved, valiant Aegisthus! You are dead!

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