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Lady Athena, at Loxias command I have come. Receive kindly an accursed wretch, not one who seeks purification, or with unclean hand, but with my guilts edge already blunted and worn away at other homes and in the travelled paths of men.
Going over land and sea alike, keeping the commands of Loxias oracle, I now approach your house and image, goddess. Here I will keep watch and await the result of my trial.
The Furies enter dispersedly, hunting Orestes trail by scent.
Chorus
Aha! This is a clear sign of the man. Follow the hints of a voiceless informer. For as a hound tracks a wounded fawn, so we track him by the drops of blood. My lungs pant from many tiring struggles, for I have roamed over the whole earth,

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