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Eumenides (635-644)

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fettered her husband in an embroidered robe, and cut him down. This was his death, as I have told it to youthe death of a man wholly majestic, commander of the fleet. As for that woman, I have described her in such a way as to whet the indignation of the people who have been appointed to decide this case.
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Chorus
Zeus gives greater honor to a fathers death, according to what you say; yet he himself bound his aged father, Cronus. How does this not contradict what you say? I call on you as witnesses turning to the judges to hear these things.
Apollo
Oh, monsters utterly loathed and detested by the gods!

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