a new-born victim by a man who can purify from murder. Long before at other houses I have been thus purified both by victims and by flowing streams.
 And so I declare that this concern is out of the way. As to my family, you will soon learn. I am an Argive ; my father—you rightly inquire about him—was Agamemnon, the commander of the naval forces; along with him, you made Troy , the city of Ilion , to be no city. He did not die nobly, after he came home; but my black-hearted mother killed him after she covered him in a crafty snare that still remains to witness his murder in the bath. And when I came back home, having been an exile in the time before, I killed the woman who gave birth to me, I will not deny it, as the penalty in return for the murder of my dearly-loved father.