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006 - The Furies Part 1 · Oresteia

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  Speaker 1: Section five of the Oristea. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: Oristea by Eschylus, translated by E. D. A.
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  Speaker 2: Moore'shead, Section five The Furies, Part one.
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  Speaker 1: The scene of the drama is the Temple of Apollo
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  Speaker 1: at Delphi. Afterwards the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis
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  Speaker 1: of Athens and the adjoining Areopagus.
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  Speaker 3: First in this prayer of all the gods, I name
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  Speaker 3: the prophet, Mother Earth and Theemus. Next second, who sat
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  Speaker 3: for so with truth, is said on this her mother's
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  Speaker 3: shrine oracular. Then by her Grace, who unconstrained aloud, there
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  Speaker 3: sat thereon another child of Earth, Titanian Phoebe. She in
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  Speaker 3: after time gave O'er the throne as birth gift to
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  Speaker 3: a god, Phoebus, who in his own bears Phoebe's name.
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  Speaker 3: He from the lake and ridge of Delos's isle, steered
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  Speaker 3: to the port of Pallas attic shores, the home of ships,
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  Speaker 3: and thence he passed and came unto this land and
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  Speaker 3: to Parnas's shrine, and at his side, with awe revering him,
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  Speaker 3: there went the children of Hephaestus seed, the hewers of
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  Speaker 3: the Sacred Way, who tame the stubborn tract that erst
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  Speaker 3: was wilderness, and all this folk, and Delphos, Chieftain, king
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  Speaker 3: of this there land, with honor gave him home. And
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  Speaker 3: in his breast Zeus set a prophet's soul and gave
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  Speaker 3: to him this throne, whereon he sits forth prophet of
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  Speaker 3: the shrine, and Lochsia's height gives voice to that which
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  Speaker 3: Zeus his sire, decrees. Such gods I name in my
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  Speaker 3: preluding prayer, and after them I call with honor due
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  Speaker 3: on Pallace wardrous of the fane and nymphs who dwell
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  Speaker 3: around the rock Corecian, where in the hollow cave the
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  Speaker 3: wild birds haunt, wander the feet of lesser gods. And
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  Speaker 3: there right well I know it Bromian Bacchus dwells, since
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  Speaker 3: he in godship led his maned host, devising death for Pentheus,
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  Speaker 3: whom they rent piecemeal as hare among the hounds. And
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  Speaker 3: last I call on Pleistus springs, Poseidon's might, and Zeus
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  Speaker 3: most High, the Great accomplisher. Then, as a seeress to
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  Speaker 3: the sacred chair, I pass and sit, and may the
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  Speaker 3: powers divine make this mine entrance fruitful. In response, beyond
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  Speaker 3: each former advent, triply blest. And if there stand without
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  Speaker 3: from hellas bound men seeking oracles, let each pass in
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  Speaker 3: order of the lot, as use allows for the God
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  Speaker 3: guides whate'er my tongue proclaims.
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  Speaker 1: The Pythian priestess goes into the interior of the temple.
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  Speaker 1: After a short interval, she returns in great fear.
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  Speaker 3: Things fell to speak of fell for eyes to see
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  Speaker 3: have sped. Me forth again from Moxi's shrine, with strength unstrung,
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  Speaker 3: moving erect no more, but aiding with my hands my
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  Speaker 3: failing feet, unnerved by fear. A bel dame's force is not.
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  Speaker 3: This is a child's when age and fear combine. For
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  Speaker 3: as I pace towards the inmost fane bay, fileted by
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  Speaker 3: many a suppliant's hand lo at the central altar, I
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  Speaker 3: descry one crouching as for refuge. Yea a man abhorred
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  Speaker 3: of heaven. And from his hands, wherein a sword new drawn,
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  Speaker 3: he holds blood reeked and fell a wand he bears
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  Speaker 3: the olive's topmost bough, twined as of purpose, with a
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  Speaker 3: deep close tuft of whitest wool. This that I plainly saw,
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  Speaker 3: plainly I hell. But lo in front of him, crouched
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  Speaker 3: on the altar steps, a grisly band of women's slumbers.
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  Speaker 3: Not like women, they but gorgons. Rather, nay, that word
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  Speaker 3: is weak, Nor may I match the gorgon's shape with theirs.
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  Speaker 3: Such have I seen in painted semblance erst winged harpies
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  Speaker 3: snatching food from phineas board. But these are wingless, black,
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  Speaker 3: and all their shape the eyes abomination to behold fell
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  Speaker 3: as the breath, Let none draw nigh to it, wherewith
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  Speaker 3: they snort in slumber. From their eyes exude the damned
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  Speaker 3: drops of poisonous iron, and such their garb, as none
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  Speaker 3: should dare to bring to statues of the gods or
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  Speaker 3: homes of men. I WoT not of the tribe, wherefrom
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  Speaker 3: can come so fell a legion, Nor in what land
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  Speaker 3: earth could rear unharmed such creatures, nor avow that she
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  Speaker 3: had travailed and brought forth death. But for the rest
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  Speaker 3: be all these things a care unto the mighty Loxius,
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  Speaker 3: the lord of this our shrine, healer and prophet, he discerner,
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  Speaker 3: he of portence, and the cleanser of other homes, behold
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  Speaker 3: his own to cleanse.
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  Speaker 1: The Pythian priestess exits. The scene opens, disclosing the interior
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  Speaker 1: of the temple. Orestes clings to the central altar. The
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  Speaker 1: furies lie slumbering at a little distance. Apollo and Hermes
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  Speaker 1: appear from the innermost shrine.
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  Speaker 2: Lo I desert thee never to the end, hard at
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  Speaker 2: thy side, as now or sundered. Far I am thy guard,
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  Speaker 2: and to thine enemies implacably oppose me. Look on them,
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  Speaker 2: these greedy fiends, beneath my craft subdued. See they are
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  Speaker 2: fallen on sleep, these bel dames oyd, unto whose grim
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  Speaker 2: and wizened maidenhood, nor God, nor man, nor beast can
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  Speaker 2: e'er draw near yea evil were they born, for evil's doom,
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  Speaker 2: Evil the dark abyss of Tartarus, wherein they dwell, and
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  Speaker 2: they themselves the hate of men on earth and of
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  Speaker 2: Olympian gods. But thou flee far and with unfaltering speed,
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  Speaker 2: for they shall hunt thee through the mainland wide, where'er
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  Speaker 2: throughout the tract of travel'd earth, Thy foot may roam
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  Speaker 2: and o'er and o'er the seas and island homes of
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  Speaker 2: men faint not nor fail too soon, and timidly within
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  Speaker 2: thy breast shepherding thoughts forlorn of this thy toil, but
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  Speaker 2: unto Pallace city, Go and there crouch at her shrine,
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  Speaker 2: and in thine arms enfold her ancient image. There we
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  Speaker 2: well shall find meet judges for this cause, and suasive,
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  Speaker 2: please skill'd to contrive for THEE deliverance from all this.
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  Speaker 2: Woe be such my pledge to THEE. For by my
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  Speaker 2: hest thou didst thy mother slay O King Apollo.
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  Speaker 4: Since right well thou knowest what justice bids have heed
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  Speaker 4: fulfill the same thy strength is all sufficient to achieve.
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  Speaker 2: Have thou too heed, nor let thy fear prevail above
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  Speaker 2: thy will. And do thou guard him Hermes, whose blood
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  Speaker 2: is brother unto mine, whose sire is the same High God.
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  Speaker 2: Men call THEE guide and God guide. Therefore thou and
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  Speaker 2: guard my supplicant, for Zeus himself reveres the outlaw's right
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  Speaker 2: boon of fair escort upon man conferred.
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  Speaker 1: Apollo, Hermes and Orestes exit. The ghost of Clytemnestra nears.
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  Speaker 5: Sleep on awake, what skills your sleep to me me
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  Speaker 5: among all the dead, by you dishonor'd me from whom
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  Speaker 5: never in the world of death dieth. This curse tis
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  Speaker 5: she who smote and slew, and shamed and scorned. I
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  Speaker 5: roam awake and hear my plaintive dead men's hate, intolerable
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  Speaker 5: me sternly slain by them that should have loved me.
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  Speaker 5: Doth no God arouse him to avenge hewn down in
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  Speaker 5: blood by matricidal hands. Mark ye, these wounds from which
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  Speaker 5: the heart's blood ran, and by whose hand bethink Ye
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  Speaker 5: for the sense, when shut in sleep hath then the
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  Speaker 5: spirit's sight. But in the day the inward eye is blind.
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  Speaker 5: Thist ye who drank so oft with lapping tongue, the
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  Speaker 5: wineless draft by me outpoured to soothe your vengeful ire,
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  Speaker 5: how oft unkindled shrine, I laid the feast of darkness
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  Speaker 5: at the hour, abhorred by every god, but you alone
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  Speaker 5: lo all my service trampled down and scorned, And he
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  Speaker 5: hath balked your chase as stag the hounds. Yea lightly
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  Speaker 5: bounding from the circling toils, hath ride his face in
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  Speaker 5: scorn and flieth far awaken here for mine own soul.
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  Speaker 5: I cry awake, ye, powers of hell. The wandering ghost
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  Speaker 5: that once was Cestra calls a rise.
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  Speaker 1: The furies mutter grimly as in a dream.
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  Speaker 5: Mutter and murmur. He hath flown afar. My kin have
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  Speaker 5: gods to guard them. I have none.
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  Speaker 1: The furies mutter as before.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, drowsed and sleep too deep to heed my pain.
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  Speaker 5: Orestes flies me his mother slew.
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  Speaker 1: The furies give a confused cry.
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  Speaker 5: Ah yelping and drowsed again, Up and be doing that
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  Speaker 5: which alone is yours, the deed of hell.
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  Speaker 1: The furies give another cry ah.
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  Speaker 5: Lo sleep and toil. The sworn Confederates have quelled your
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  Speaker 5: dragon anger once so fell.
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  Speaker 6: See sea sees sees mark yonder.
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  Speaker 5: In dreams you chase a prey, and like some hound that,
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  Speaker 5: even in sleep doth ply his woodland. Toil, ye, bell
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  Speaker 5: and bay, what do ye sleeping here be not oor,
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  Speaker 5: come with toil nor sleep subdued, Be heedless of my wrong. Up,
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  Speaker 5: thrill your heart with the just chidings of my tongue.
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  Speaker 5: Such words are as a spur to purpose, firmly held,
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  Speaker 5: blow forth on him the breath of wrath and blood
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  Speaker 5: scorch him with reek of fire that burns in you,
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  Speaker 5: waste him with new pursuit, swift hound him down.
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  Speaker 7: The ghost sinks up, rouse another as I rouse thee up,
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  Speaker 7: sleepst Thou rise up and spurning sleep away. See we
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  Speaker 7: if false to us this prelude rang.
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  Speaker 6: Lack alack o sisters sleep, Oh much and vainly.
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  Speaker 8: Have we toiled and born vainly? And all we rot?
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  Speaker 6: The gods have filed us to scorn. He hath slipped
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  Speaker 6: from the net whom we chased.
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  Speaker 5: He has escaped us.
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  Speaker 6: Who should be our prey or muster by slumber we sank,
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  Speaker 6: and our.
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  Speaker 7: Quarry has stolen away.
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  Speaker 6: Thou, child of a high god Zeus Apollo hast robbed
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  Speaker 6: us and wronged Thou a youth, hast downtrodden the right
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  Speaker 6: that is godship more ancient belonged. Thou hast cherished thy
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  Speaker 6: supplate man, the slaer god forsaken the bane of a
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  Speaker 6: parent by craft from out of our grasp.
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  Speaker 5: Thou hast taken a god.
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  Speaker 6: Thou hast stolen from us the avengers a metricide sun.
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  Speaker 5: And who shall consider thy deed and say it is
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  Speaker 5: rightfully done?
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  Speaker 6: The sound of a chiding scorn came from the land
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  Speaker 6: of dream deep to my inmost heart. I felt it
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  Speaker 6: thrill and burn, thrust as a strong breast, goad to
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  Speaker 6: urge onward the chariot's team thrilled, chilled with bitter, inward pain.
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  Speaker 6: I stand as one beneath the doomsman's courage. Shame on
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  Speaker 6: the younger god to tread down right, sitting on the
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  Speaker 6: thrones of might.
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  Speaker 5: Woe on the altar of earth.
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  Speaker 6: And fain clotted on step and shrine. Behold the guilt
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  Speaker 6: of blood the guest stain woe on the Apollo, uncontrolled, unbidden.
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  Speaker 6: Hast thou, prophet God imbrood the pure prophetic shrine with
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  Speaker 6: wrongful blood, for thou to hainest a respect didst hold
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  Speaker 6: of man, to little heed of powers divine and us
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  Speaker 6: the fates, the ancients of their earth dis deems nothing
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  Speaker 6: worth scornful to me.
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  Speaker 5: Thou art, yet shalt not fend my wrest from.
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  Speaker 9: Him, though unto the hell he flee, There too are we,
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  Speaker 9: and he the blood defiled, should feel and rue though
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  Speaker 9: I were not, that shall.
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  Speaker 5: Not end Descending on his head foully.
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  Speaker 1: Slew Apollo re enters from the inner shrine.
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  Speaker 2: Out, I command you out from this my home. Haste,
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  Speaker 2: darry not out from the mystic shrine, lest thy lot
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  Speaker 2: be to take into thy breast the winged bright dart
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  Speaker 2: that from my golden strings speeds hissing as a snake.
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  Speaker 2: Lest pierced and thrilled with agony, thou shouldt spew forth
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  Speaker 2: again black frothy heart's blood drawn from mortal men, belching,
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  Speaker 2: the gory cloths sucked forth from wounds. These be no
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  Speaker 2: halls where such as you can prowl go where men
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  Speaker 2: lay on men, the doom of blood, heads lopped from necks,
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  Speaker 2: eyes from their sphere, plucked out, hacked flesh, the flower
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  Speaker 2: of youthful seed crushed, or feet hewn away, and hands
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  Speaker 2: and death beneath the smiting stone, low moans and piteous
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  Speaker 2: of men impaled. Hark hear ye for what feasts ye
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  Speaker 2: hanker ever, and the loathing gods do spit upon your
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  Speaker 2: craving lo Your shape is all too fitted for your greed.
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  Speaker 2: The cave where lurks some lion lapping gore were home.
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  Speaker 2: More meet for you a vaunt from sacred shrines, Nor
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  Speaker 2: bring pollution by your touch on all that nears you,
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  Speaker 2: hence and rome unshepherded. No God there is to tense
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  Speaker 2: such herd as.
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  Speaker 8: You in our turn hear us.
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  Speaker 7: Cause and doer the same.
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  Speaker 2: How stretch thy speech to tell this? And have done.
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  Speaker 7: Thine oracle bade this man slay his mother.
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  Speaker 2: Mother, I bade him quit his sire's death. Wherefore not
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  Speaker 2: didst thou aid?
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  Speaker 3: And God handed crime?
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  Speaker 2: Yea, and I bade him to this temple flee.
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  Speaker 5: And yet forsooth doth following him?
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  Speaker 2: I not for you? It is to near this fane.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, is such office hours imposed by fate?
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  Speaker 2: What office want the thing? Ye deem so fair?
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  Speaker 5: From from home to home we cha mas.
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  Speaker 2: Acide what to avenge a wife who slays her lord.
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  Speaker 7: That is not blood out kindred hands?
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  Speaker 2: How darkly ye dishonor and annull the troth to which
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  Speaker 2: the high accomplishers Hera and Zeus do honor. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: thus is aphrodite to dishonor caste the queen of rapture.
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  Speaker 2: Unto mortal men. Know that above the marriage bed ordained
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  Speaker 2: for man and woman standeth right as god enhancing sanctity
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  Speaker 2: of troth plight sworn. Therefore, if thou art placable to
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  Speaker 2: those who have their consort slain, nor wilst to turn
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  Speaker 2: on them the eye of wrath. Unjust art thou in
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  Speaker 2: hounding to this doom the man who slew his mother. Lo,
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  Speaker 2: I know thee full of wrath against one deed, but
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  Speaker 2: all too placable unto the other minishing the crime. But
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  Speaker 2: in this cause shall palace guard the right deem?
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  Speaker 3: Not I question with that man.
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  Speaker 2: Follow then make thee double toil in vain.
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  Speaker 10: Speech to pretail.
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  Speaker 2: None has thou that I would accept of thee yeay.
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  Speaker 6: Hi thine honor by the throne of Zeus. But I,
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  Speaker 6: drawn on by scent of mother's blood, seek vengeance on
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  Speaker 6: this man and help him down.
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  Speaker 2: But I will stand beside him. Tis for me to
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  Speaker 2: guard my supplicant gods and men alike. Do dread the
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  Speaker 2: curse of such an one betrayed, and in me fear,
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  Speaker 2: and will will say leave him?
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  Speaker 1: Not I'll exit. The scene changes to Athens. In the foreground,
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  Speaker 1: the temple of Athena on the acropolis. Her statue stands
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  Speaker 1: in the center. Orestes is seen clinging to it.
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  Speaker 4: Look on me, Queen Athena. Lo I come by Loxias,
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  Speaker 4: behest thou of thy grace, receive me, driven of avenging powers.
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  Speaker 4: Not now a red hand slayer, un annealed, but with
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  Speaker 4: guilt fading, half a faced outworn on many homes and
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  Speaker 4: paths of mortal men. For to the limit of each land,
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  Speaker 4: each sea. I roamed obedient to Apollo's hest and come
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  Speaker 4: at last, Oh Goddess, to thy fane, and clinging to
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  Speaker 4: thine image, bide my doom.
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  Speaker 1: Enter the chorus of furies, questing like hounds.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Him, we seek, follow the track the sun sigh like
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  Speaker 6: some pound that hunts a wounded fawn. We snuffle all
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  Speaker 6: scent of.
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  Speaker 9: Dripping gore, and inwardly.
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  Speaker 5: We pant for many a day, toiling and chase that
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  Speaker 5: shall for do the man for foreign or the wide land?
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  Speaker 9: Have I ranged, and or the wide sea?
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  Speaker 6: Flying without wings, swift as a sail, I crest upon
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  Speaker 6: his track.
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  Speaker 5: Now hard by is crouching well. I watch sen of
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  Speaker 5: mortal blood. Allures here follow seek him.
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  Speaker 6: Round and round sentence, snuff and scan the ground, lest unharmed.
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  Speaker 5: He slip away. He who did his mother's sleigh.
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  Speaker 8: Hist he is there, see him his arms and twine
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  Speaker 8: around the image of the maid divine, Thus aided for
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  Speaker 8: the deed he wrought unto the judgment wills he to
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  Speaker 8: be brought.
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  Speaker 6: It may not be a mother's blood poured forth upon
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  Speaker 6: the stated earth.
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  Speaker 5: None gathers up it lies.
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  Speaker 6: Bear witness hell, for I indelible, and thou he shall
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  Speaker 6: give thine own that's shutting to a tone yay from
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  Speaker 6: thy living limb's eyes suck it out, red, clotted out
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  Speaker 6: by out.
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  Speaker 5: At aboord of men and gods.
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  Speaker 6: But I will drain it suckly dry yea, I will
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  Speaker 6: waste thee living nerve and vain y yay, for thy
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  Speaker 6: mother slain will drag thee downward. There were thou shalt
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  Speaker 6: dree the weird of agony, And thou, when whatsoever the
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  Speaker 6: man hath sinned, hath wronged, or God or friend or parent,
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  Speaker 6: learnarn ye how to all and each the arm of
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  Speaker 6: doom can reach sternly. Requiteth in the world beneath the
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  Speaker 6: judgment seat of death. Yay, death beholding every man's endeavor
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  Speaker 6: recordeth it forever.
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  Speaker 4: I schooled in many miseries, have learnt how many refuges
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  Speaker 4: of cleansing shrines there be? I know when law allows
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  Speaker 4: speech and one imposes silence, Lo I stand fixed now
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  Speaker 4: to speak, for he whose word is wise commands the same.
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  Speaker 4: Look how the stain of blood is dull upon mine hand,
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  Speaker 4: and waste away, and laved and lost. Therewith is the
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  Speaker 4: deep curse of matricide. For while the guilt was new,
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  Speaker 4: twas banished from me at Apollo's hearth, atoned and purified
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  Speaker 4: by death of swine. Long were my word if I
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  Speaker 4: should sum the tale, how oft Since then among my
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  Speaker 4: fellow men I stood and brought no curse. Time cleanses
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  Speaker 4: all time, the co ofal of all things that are
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  Speaker 4: now from pure lips. In words of omen fair, I
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  Speaker 4: call Athena, lady of this land, to come my champion,
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  Speaker 4: so in after time she shall not fail of love
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  Speaker 4: and service, deal not won by war from me and
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  Speaker 4: from my land, and all the folk of Argos vowed
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  Speaker 4: to her. Now be she far away in Libyan land,
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  Speaker 4: where flows from Triton's lake, her natal wave stands, She
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  Speaker 4: with planted feet, or in some hour of rest, conceal them.
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  Speaker 4: Champion of her friends, where'er she be, or whether o'er
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  Speaker 4: the plain Flagrian, she look forth as warrior bold. I
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  Speaker 4: cry to her to where'er she be, and she as
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  Speaker 4: Godess from afar can hear and aid and free me,
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  Speaker 4: said among my foes thee.
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  Speaker 5: Not Apollo nor Athena's strength can say.
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  Speaker 6: From perishing, can cast away amid the lost, where no
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  Speaker 6: delight shall meet thy soul, a bloodless prey of nether powers,
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  Speaker 6: a shadow among shadows. Answerest thou nothing dost cast away
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  Speaker 6: my words with scorn.
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  Speaker 5: Thou pray prepared.
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  Speaker 6: And dedicate to me, not as a victim slain upon
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  Speaker 6: the shrine, but living, shalt thou.
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  Speaker 5: See thy flesh, my food.
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  Speaker 2: Here now the binding.
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  Speaker 6: Chant that makes see mine weave the weird dance.
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  Speaker 5: Behold the hour to utter forth.
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  Speaker 6: The chant of hell or or sway among mankind, to
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  Speaker 6: tell the guidance of our power of justice. Are we ministers,
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  Speaker 6: and whosoever of men may stand lifting a pure, unsullied hand,
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  Speaker 6: that man no doom of ours incurs, and walks through
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  Speaker 6: all his mortal path, untouched by woe, unharmed by wrath.
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  Speaker 6: But if, as yonder man, he hath blood on the
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  Speaker 6: hands he strives to hide, we stand avengers at his side,
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  Speaker 6: decreeing thou hast wronged the dead. We are Doom's witnesses
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  Speaker 6: to thee. The price of blood his hands have shed.
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  Speaker 6: We wring from him in life, in death, hard at
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: his side are we, Knight, my mother, knight who brought
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  Speaker 6: me forth a torment to living men and dead.
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  Speaker 7: Hear me, O, hear.
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  Speaker 6: By NATO's stripling son, I am dishonored. He hath taken
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  Speaker 6: from me, him who cowers in refuge to me made
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  Speaker 6: consecrate a rightful victim, him who slew his mother.
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  Speaker 3: Given or to me and fate.
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  Speaker 6: Hear the hymn of Hell, or the victim sounding chant
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  Speaker 6: of frenzy, chant of ill sense and will, confounding round
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  Speaker 6: the soul and whining without loot, or liar soul in madness, pining,
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  Speaker 6: wasting as with fire, fate, all pervading fate, this service
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  Speaker 6: fun commanding that I should bide therein whosoe'er mortals they
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: perverse and lawless, sustained with blood of kin by his
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: side are we and hunt him ever onward, till to
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  Speaker 6: the silent land, the realm of death he cometh, neither
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: yonder in freedom shall he stand.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Hear the hymn of Hell, or the victim sounding chant
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  Speaker 5: of frenzy, chant of ill.
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  Speaker 6: Sense of will, confounding round the soul and whining with
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: without loot, or liar soul in madness, spining wasting as
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: with fire. When from whom of night we sprang on
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: us this labor was laid and shall abide God mortal,
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: Are yet yet bewear ye touch not that which is
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: our pride? None may come beside us gathered round the
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: blood feasts for our snow garments, white gleam on a
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: festal day.
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  Speaker 5: For us, a darker fate is another darker right that
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: is mine.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Hour when falls an ancient line, when in the household's
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: heart the god of blood doth slay by kindred hands,
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: then do we bear our part on him whose sleighs
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: we sweep with chasing cry.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Though he be triply strong, we wear and waste.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Him blood atones for blood, new pain, for ancient wrong.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: I hold this task tis mine, not another's. The very
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: gods on high, though they can silence and annull the
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: prayers of those who.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: On us cry, they may not strive with us who stand.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: Apart a race by Zeus of Horde, blood boltered, held unworthy.
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  Speaker 5: Of the council, and converse of Heaven's Lord.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: Therefore, the more I leap upon my prey upon their head.
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  Speaker 6: I bound my foot is hard as the one that
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: trips a runner. I cast them to the ground, yay,
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: to the depths of doom, intolerable. And they who erst
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: were great, and upon her held high their pride and
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: glory are brought to low estate.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: In underworld they waste and are diminished.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: And while around them fleet dark wingings of my robes,
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: and suddenly woven the paces of my feet.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Who falls infatuate, he sees not, neither knows he that
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: we are at his side.
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: So closely round about him, darkly flitting.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: The cloud of guilt doth glide, heavenly tis uttered. How
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: around his hearthstone, the murk of hell doth rise, stern
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: and fixed.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: The law is we have hands to achieve it. Cunning
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: to devise.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Queens are we, and mindful of our solemn vengeance. Not
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: by tear or prayer shall a man a verdict in
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: an unhonored darkness far from God's We fare lit it unto.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Our task with torch of mindless regions.
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: And or a deadly way, deadly to the living, as
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: to those who see not life and light.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Of day, and press onward, who of mortals hearing doth.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: Not take for awe hearing all that fate true hand
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: of God hath given us for ordinance and law.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: This rights to us in.
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Our arbism, and backward of the ages it befel.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: None shall rob, though in nether regions, and dark.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Eye dwell Athena enters from above far off.
• 28:13
  Speaker 10: I heard the clamor of your cry, as by commander's side,
• 28:18
  Speaker 10: I set my foot, asserting right upon the land given
• 28:22
  Speaker 10: ore to me by those who ore a Chaia's host
• 28:26
  Speaker 10: held sway and leadership, no scanty part of all they
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: won by spear and sword to me. They gave it
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: land and all that grew thereon, as chosen heirloom for
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: my Theseus's clan then summoned sped I, with a tireless foot,
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: hummed on the wind instead of wings. The fold of
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: this mine aegis by my feet propelled as linked to
• 28:53
  Speaker 10: mettled horses, speeds a car, and now beholding here Earth's
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: nether rude, I fear it not, Yet are mine eyes
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: amazed with wonder? Who are ye of all I ask?
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: And of this stranger to my statue clinging, But ye,
• 29:13
  Speaker 10: your shape is like no human form, like to no
• 29:17
  Speaker 10: goddess whom the gods behold like to no shape which
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: mortal women wear. Yet to stand by and chide a
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: monstrous form is all unjust. From such words right revolts,
• 29:33
  Speaker 10: child of Zeus.
• 29:34
  Speaker 11: One word shall tell all we are the children of
• 29:38
  Speaker 11: eternal night, and furious in the underworld are called.
• 29:44
  Speaker 10: I know your lineage now, and eke your name yea.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: And as soon as.
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: Know fame, would I learn them? Speak them clearly?
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: Forth we take from home the murderers of men.
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: And where at last can he that slew make pause?
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: Where this is law?
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Joy abandon here?
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: Say do ye bade this man to such a flight? Yea?
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: For a choice he did his mother slay.
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: Urged by no fear of other wrath and doom, whisper
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: excide two stand to plead.
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: One Only have I heard he will not swear nor
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: challenge us to oath.
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: The form of justice, not its deed.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: Thou willest pro word, Thou art not scant of skill.
• 30:40
  Speaker 10: I say that oaths shall not enforce the wrong.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Then test the cause, judge, and award the right.
• 30:49
  Speaker 10: Will ye to me? Then this decision trust.
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: Yea reverence, true, child of worthy.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Sire Athena to orestes O.
• 31:00
  Speaker 10: Man unknown, Make thou thy plea in turn speak forth
• 31:06
  Speaker 10: thy land, thy lineage, and thy woes. Then if thou
• 31:11
  Speaker 10: canst avert this bitter blame, If as I deem in
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: confidence of right, thou sittest hard beside my holy place,
• 31:22
  Speaker 10: clasping this statue as Ixion sat a sacred seppliant for
• 31:27
  Speaker 10: Zeus to cleanse to all this answer me in words
• 31:31
  Speaker 10: made plain.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Oh Queen Athena. First from thy last words, will I
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: a great solicitude, remove not one blood guilty? Am I
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: no fellow? Stain cleanse to thine image from my clinging hand,
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: whereof one potent proof I have to tell lo, the
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: law stands. The slayer shall not plead till by the
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: hand of him who cleanses blood, a suckling creature's blood
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: besprinkle him. Long since have this expiation done in many
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: a home, Slain beasts and running streams have cleansed me.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Thus I speak away that fear next of my lineage.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Quickly thou shalt learn and argive, am I? And right well?
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Thou knowest my sire, that Agamemnon who array'd the fleet
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: and them that went therein to war, that chief, with
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: whom thy hand combined to crush to an unsitied heap
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: that once was Troy, That Agamemnon, when he homeward came,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: was brought unto no honorable death, slain by the dark
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: souled wife, who brought me forth to him, and wound
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: and slain in wily nets blazoned with blood, that in
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: the labor ran and I, returning from an exiled youth,
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: slew her my mother lo it stands avowed with blood
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: for blood, avenging my loved sire. And in this deed
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: doth Loxius bare part decree agonies to goad my will
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: unless by me the guilty found their doom. Do thou
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: decide if right or wrong were done thy dooman whatsoe'er
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: it be contents me too, mighty?
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: Is this matter? Whatsoe'er of mortal's claims to judge? Hereof
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: aright yea me even me eternal right forbids to judge
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: the issues of blood, guilt and wrath that follows swift
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: behind this too gives pause that thou, as one with
• 33:35
  Speaker 10: all due rights performed, dost come unsinning pure unto my shrine.
• 33:43
  Speaker 10: Whate'er thou art in this my city's name, as uncondemned,
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: I take thee to my side. Yet have these foes
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: of thine such dues by fate I may not banish them,
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: And if they fail or throne in judgment of the cause,
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: forthwith their anger's poison shall infect the land a dropping
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: plague spot of eternal ill. Thus stand we with a
• 34:14
  Speaker 10: woe on either hand. Stay they, or go at my commandment.
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: Forth perplexity or pain must needs befall. Yet, as on me,
• 34:28
  Speaker 10: fate hath imposed the cause. I choose unto me judges,
• 34:33
  Speaker 10: that shall be an ordinance forever set to rule the
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: dues of blood guilt upon oath declared. But ye call
• 34:43
  Speaker 10: forth your witness and your proof words strong for justice
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: fortified by oath, And I whoe'er are truest in my town? Them?
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: Will I choose and bring and straightly charge look on
• 35:00
  Speaker 10: this cause, discriminating well, and pledge your oath to utter
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: not of wrong athen exits?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: How are they?
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: They all undone the ancient laws?
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: If here the slayers cause prevail you wrong for ancient
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: rights shall be if matricide go free, henceforth a deed
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: like his by all shall stand.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Too ready to hand too oft. Shall parents, in the
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: after time ruine and lament.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: This crime, taught not in false imagining to feel their
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: children's thrusting steal.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: No more the wrath their murder fell from us.
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: The queens of Hell shall fall no more watching gaze impend,
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: death shall smite unrestrained.
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: Henceforth shall one unto another cry.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: Lo, they are stricken. Lo, they fall and die around me, And.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: That other answers him.
• 36:03
  Speaker 11: Oh, thou that lookest that thy woes should cease, behold
• 36:07
  Speaker 11: with dark increase, They throng and press upon thee yea
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: and dim is all the cure and every comfort.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Pain Let none.
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: Hence cry out twin falls, smiting woe, cry out in sad, reiterated.
• 36:25
  Speaker 10: Strain O justice aid aid, Oh.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: He thrones of hell, So a father or a mother
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: wail news knitted by son itha fail since overthrown by wrong,
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: the fain of justice fell. No, that a throne there
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: is that may not pass away, and one that sitteth
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: on it even fear searching with steadfast eyes.
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: Man's inner soul wisdom is a child of pain.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: And born with many a tear. But who henceforth, what
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: men of mortal men.
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: What nation upon earth that holdeth not in awe nor
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: in the light of inner reference, shall worship right as
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: in the older day.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: Praise not o man the life beyond control, nor that which.
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: Bows us to a tyrant sway. Know that the middle
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: way is dearest unto God. And they thereon who wend,
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: they shall achieve the end. But they who wander or
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: to left or right are sinners in His sight. Take
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: to thy heart this one, this soothfast word. The wantonness
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: impiety is sire. Only from calm, control and sanity unstirred
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: cometh true.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Weal the goal of every man's desire. Yea, whatsoever befell.
• 37:52
  Speaker 11: Hold thou this word of mine, bow.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: Down justice, shrine, Turn thou thy eyes away from earth
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: early lure, nor with godless foot that altar spurn, for
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: as shall fate do in return, and the great doom
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: is sure. Therefore, let each adure parents trust, and each.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: With loyalty near the guests that is his hall does rest.
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: For who's so uncompelled doth follow what is just here
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: shall be blessed to the love of doom.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: That man shall come. But he whose will is set
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: against the God who trusts.
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: The law with foot impure to the wreck of right confusion.
• 38:38
  Speaker 10: Broods know that for him, though now.
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: He shall secure that the day of doorm shall be,
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: then shall he strive and fail down from the shiverary yard,
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: to burl the sail, and call on powers that he
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: him not to save, and vainly wrestle with the whirling
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: wave hot was his heart with prime. I shall not fall,
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: he cried, But him was watching scorn the God's behold, forlorn,
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: tangled in the toils of fate, beyond escape, hopeless of
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: Haven's sake, beyond the cape, till all is wealth and
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: bliss of by one day upon the reef of rightful
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: doom is furled, and he is wrapped away, unwept, forever
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: to the dead, forgotten world.
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  Speaker 3: End of Section five.