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Libation Bearers (916-970)

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Then where is the price I got for you?
Orestes
I am ashamed to reproach you with that outright.
Clytaemestra
But do not fail to proclaim the follies of that father of yours as well.
Orestes
Do not accuse him who suffered while you sat idle at home.
Clytaemestra
It is a grief for women to be deprived of a husband, my child.
Orestes
Yes, but it is the husband’s toil that supports them while they sit at home.
Clytaemestra
You seem resolved, my child, to kill your mother.
Orestes
You will kill yourself, not I.
Clytaemestra
Take care: beware the hounds of wrath that avenge a mother.
Orestes
And how shall I escape my father’s if I leave this undone?
Clytaemestra
I see that though living I mourn in vain before a tomb.[*]
Orestes
Yes, for my father’s fate has marked out this destiny for you.
Clytaemestra
Oh no! I myself bore and nourished this serpent!
Orestes
Yes, the terror from your dream was indeed a prophet. You killed him whom you should not; so suffer what should not be.
He forces Clytaemestra within; Pylades follows
Chorus
Truly I grieve even for these in their twofold downfall. Yet since long-suffering Orestes has reached the peak of many deeds of blood, we would rather have it so, that the eye of the house should not be utterly lost.
935
Chorus
As to Priam and his sons justice came at last in crushing retribution, so to Agamemnon’s house came a twofold lion, twofold slaughter.[*]
The exile, the suppliant of Pytho, has fulfilled his course to the utmost, justly urged on by counsels from the gods.
942
Chorus
Oh raise a shout of triumph over the escape of our master’s house from its misery and the wasting of its wealth by two who were unclean,
its grievous fortune!
946
Chorus
And he has come whose part is the crafty vengeance of stealthy attack, and in the battle his hand was guided by her who is in very truth daughter of Zeus, breathing murderous wrath on her foes.
We mortals aim true to the mark when we call her Justice.[*]
942a
Chorus
Oh raise a shout of triumph over the escape of our master’s house from its misery and the wasting of its wealth by two who were unclean,
its grievous fortune!
953
Chorus
The commands proclaimed loudly by Loxias, tenant of the mighty cavern shrine of Parnassus, assail with guileless guile
the mischief now become inveterate. May the divine word prevail that so I may not serve the wicked![*]
It is right to revere the rule of heaven.
961
Chorus
Look, the light has come, and I am freed from the cruel curb that restrained our household. House, rise up! You have lain too long prostrate on the ground.
965
Chorus
But soon time that accomplishes all will pass the portals of our house, and then all pollution will be expelled from the hearth by cleansing rites that drive out calamity. The dice of fortune will turn as they fall and lie
with faces all lovely to behold, favorably disposed to whoever stays in our house.

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