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.

Orestes with the branch and wreath of a suppliant is disclosed standing by the bodies. With him are Pylades and attendants who display the robe of AgamemnonOrestesBehold this pair, oppressors of the land, who murdered my father and ransacked my house! They were majestic then, when they sat on their thrones,and are lovers even now, as one may judge by what has happened to them, and their oath holds true to their pledges. Together they vowed a league of death against my unhappy father, and together they vowed to die, and they have kept their promise well. But now regard again, you who hear this account of ills,the device for binding my unhappy father, with which his hands were manacled, his feet fettered. Spread it out! Stand around in a circle, and display this covering for a man, that the Father may see—not mine, but he who surveys all this, the Sun—