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Zeus, as you say, gave you this oracular command, to tell Orestes here to avenge his fathers murder but to take no account at all of the honor due his mother?
Apollo
Yes, for it is not the same thingthe murder of a noble man, honored by a god-given scepter, and his murder indeed by a woman, not by rushing arrows sped from afar, as if by an Amazon, but as you will hear, Pallas, and those
who are sitting to decide by vote in this matter.
She received him from the expedition, where he had for the most part won success beyond expectation,[*] in the judgment of those favorable to him; then, as he was stepping from the bath, on its very edge, she threw a cloak like a tent over it,

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