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  Speaker 1: Part one of Orestes. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Orestes by Euripides,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Theodore Buckley. Part one Gematis.
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  Speaker 2: Persona elektra read by Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 3: Klett Helen read by Beth Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: Chorus of argive Women read by Christineji.
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  Speaker 5: Orestes read by Todd.
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  Speaker 6: Menalaeus read by Bruce Pirey, Tindares read by al g.
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  Speaker 7: Pag Pelades read by Rob Baard.
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  Speaker 8: Messenger read by Abaye A Phrygin read by April Walters.
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  Speaker 9: Hermione read by Mary Kay.
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  Speaker 10: Apollo read by Phil shamp.
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  Speaker 11: Semi Chorus read by April Walters.
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  Speaker 1: Narrator read by Lydia. Part one, Enter Electra.
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  Speaker 2: There is no word so dreadful to relate nor suffering,
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  Speaker 2: nor heaven inflicted calamity, the burden of which human nature
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  Speaker 2: may not be compelled to bear. For Tantalus the blest,
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  Speaker 2: and I am not reproaching his fortune when I say this,
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  Speaker 2: The son of Jupiter, as they report, trembling at the
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  Speaker 2: rock which impends over his head, hangs in the air,
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  Speaker 2: and suffers this punishment, as they say, indeed, because although
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  Speaker 2: being a man, yet having the honor of a table
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  Speaker 2: in common with the gods upon equal terms, he possessed
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  Speaker 2: an ungovernable tongue, a most disgraceful malady, he begat Pelops,
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  Speaker 2: and from him sprung Atreus, for whom the goddess, having
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  Speaker 2: carded the wool, spun the thread of contention and doomed
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  Speaker 2: him to make war on Thiestes his relation. Why must
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  Speaker 2: I commemorate things unspeakable? But Atreus then killed his children
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  Speaker 2: and feasted him. But from Atreus, for I pass over
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  Speaker 2: in silence. The misfortunes which intervened sprung Agamemnon the illustrious,
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  Speaker 2: if he was indeed illustrious, and Menelaeus, their mother Aeropie
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  Speaker 2: of crete. But Menelaeus indeed marries Helen, the hated of
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  Speaker 2: the gods. But King Agamemnon obtained Clytemnestra's bed, memorable throughout
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  Speaker 2: the Grecians, from whom we virgins were born three from
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  Speaker 2: one mother, Chrysothemis and Iphigenia, and myself Electra and Orestes,
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  Speaker 2: the male part of the family from a most unholy
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  Speaker 2: mother who slew her husband, having covered him around with
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  Speaker 2: an inextricable robe. The reason, however, it is not decorous
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  Speaker 2: in a virgin to tell I leave this undeclared for
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  Speaker 2: men to consider as they will. But why indeed must
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  Speaker 2: I accuse the injustice of Phoebus yet persuaded he Orestes
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  Speaker 2: to kill that mother that brought him forth, a deed
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  Speaker 2: which gained not a good report from all men. But
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  Speaker 2: nevertheless he did slay her, as he would not be
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  Speaker 2: disobedient to the god. I also took a share in
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  Speaker 2: the murder, but such as a woman ought to take,
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  Speaker 2: as did Pilades also, who perpetrated this deed with us.
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  Speaker 2: From that time wasting away, the wretched Orestes is afflicted
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  Speaker 2: with a grievous malady, but falling on his couch there
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  Speaker 2: lies but his mother's blood whirls him to frenzy, for
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  Speaker 2: I dread to mention those goddesses, the Eumenides, who persecute
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  Speaker 2: him with terror. Moreover, this is the sixth day since
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  Speaker 2: his slaughtered mother was purified by fire as to her body,
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  Speaker 2: during which he has neither taken any food down his throat.
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  Speaker 2: He has not bathed his limbs, but covered beneath his cloak,
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  Speaker 2: when indeed his body is lightened of its disease. On
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  Speaker 2: coming to his right mind, he weeps, but at another
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  Speaker 2: time starts suddenly from his couch, as a colt from
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  Speaker 2: his yoke. But it has been decreed by this city
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  Speaker 2: of Argos that no one shall receive us who have
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  Speaker 2: slain a mother under their roof, nor at their fire,
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  Speaker 2: and that none shall speak to us. But this is
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  Speaker 2: the appointed day in the which the city of the
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  Speaker 2: Argives will pronounce their vote. Whether it is fitting that
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  Speaker 2: we should die being stoned with stones, or having wet
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  Speaker 2: the sword, should plunge it into our necks. But I
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  Speaker 2: yet have some hope that we may not die. For
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  Speaker 2: Menelaeus has arrived at this country from Troy, and filling
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  Speaker 2: the nauplon harbor with his oars, is mooring his fleet
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  Speaker 2: off the shore, having been lost in wanderings from Troy
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  Speaker 2: a long time. But the much afflicted Helen has he
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  Speaker 2: sent before to our palace, having taken advantage of the night,
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  Speaker 2: lest any of those whose children died under Ilium when
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  Speaker 2: they saw her coming by day, might go so far
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  Speaker 2: as to stone her. But she is within bewailing her sister,
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  Speaker 2: and the calamity of her family. She has, however, some
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  Speaker 2: consolation in her woes, for the virgin Hermione, whom Menelaeus,
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  Speaker 2: bringing from Sparta, left at our palace when he sailed
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  Speaker 2: to Troy, and gave as a charge to my mother
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  Speaker 2: to bring up in her. She rejoices and forgets her miseries.
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  Speaker 2: But I am looking at each avenue when I shall
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  Speaker 2: see Menelaeus present, since for the rest we ride on
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  Speaker 2: slender power. If we receive not some succor from him,
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  Speaker 2: the house of the unfortunate is an embarrassed state of affairs.
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  Speaker 3: Enter Helen O, daughter of Clytemenestra, and Agamemnon O Electra,
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  Speaker 3: Thou that hast remained a virgin a long time? How
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  Speaker 3: are ye, o, wretched woman? Both you and your brother
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  Speaker 3: the wretched Orestes, he was the murderer of his mother.
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  Speaker 3: For by thy converse I am not polluted, transferring as
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  Speaker 3: I do the blame to Phoebus. And yet I groan
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  Speaker 3: the death of Clytophenestra, whom, after that I sailed to Troy.
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  Speaker 3: How did I sail urged by the maddening fate of
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  Speaker 3: the gods I saw not but of her bereft, I
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  Speaker 3: lament my fortune.
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  Speaker 2: Helen, Why should I inform THEE of things? Thou seest
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  Speaker 2: thyself here present the race of Agamemnon in calamities, I,
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  Speaker 2: indeed sleepless, sit companion to the wretched course, for he
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  Speaker 2: is a course, and that he breathed so little. But
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  Speaker 2: at his fortune I murmur not, But thou, a happy
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  Speaker 2: woman and thy husband a happy man, have come to
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  Speaker 2: us who fare most wretchedly.
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  Speaker 3: But what length of time has he been lying on
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  Speaker 3: his couch.
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  Speaker 2: Ever since he shed his parent's blood all wretched?
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  Speaker 3: And his mother too, that thus she perished?
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  Speaker 2: These things are thus so that he is unable to
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  Speaker 2: speak for misery.
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  Speaker 3: By the gods. Wilt thou oblige me in a thing
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  Speaker 3: o virgin.
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  Speaker 2: As far as I am permitted by the little leisure
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  Speaker 2: I have from watching by my brother.
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  Speaker 3: Wilt thou go to the tomb of my sister.
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  Speaker 2: My mother's tomb? Dost thou desire wherefore.
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  Speaker 3: Bearing the first offerings of my hair and my libations?
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  Speaker 2: But is it not lawful for THEE to go to
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  Speaker 2: the tomb of thy friends?
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  Speaker 12: No?
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  Speaker 3: For I am ashamed to show myself among the argives.
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  Speaker 2: Late art thou discreet, then, formerly leaving thine home disgracefully.
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  Speaker 3: True, hast thou spoken, But thou speakest not pleasantly to me?
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  Speaker 2: But what shame possesses thee among the Mycenaeans.
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  Speaker 3: I fear the fathers of those who are dead under ilium.
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  Speaker 2: For this is a dreadful thing, and at argos thou
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  Speaker 2: art declaimed against by every one's mouth.
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  Speaker 3: Do thou then grant me this favor and free me
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  Speaker 3: from this fear.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot look upon the tomb of my mother, and.
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  Speaker 3: Yet it is disgraceful for servants to bear these.
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  Speaker 2: But why not send thy daughter, Hermione.
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  Speaker 3: It is not well for virgins to go among the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: And yet she might repay the dead the care of
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  Speaker 2: her education.
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  Speaker 3: Right hast thus spoken? And I obey thee o Virgin,
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  Speaker 3: and I will send my daughter. For thou sayest well,
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  Speaker 3: come forth, my child, Hermione, before the house, and take
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  Speaker 3: these libations in thine hand and my hair, and going
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  Speaker 3: to the tomb of Clytemnestra, leave there this mixture of
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  Speaker 3: milk and honey and the froth of wine, And standing
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  Speaker 3: on the summit of the mound, say thus, Helen thy
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  Speaker 3: sister presents THEE with these libations in fear herself to
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  Speaker 3: approach thy tomb and afraid of the populace of Argos,
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  Speaker 3: And bid her whold kind intentions toward me and thyself
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  Speaker 3: and my husband, and toward these two miserable persons whom
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  Speaker 3: the God has destroyed. But promise all the offerings to
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  Speaker 3: the mans, whatever it is fitting that I should perform
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  Speaker 3: for a sister, Go, my child, hasten, And when thou
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  Speaker 3: hast offered the libations of the tomb, remember to return
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  Speaker 3: back as speedily as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Exit Helen, Oh nature, what a great evil thou art
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  Speaker 2: among men, and the safeguard of those who possess THEE
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  Speaker 2: with virtue. Foresee how she has shorn off the extremities
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  Speaker 2: of her hair in order to preserve her beauty. But
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  Speaker 2: she is the same woman she always was. May the
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  Speaker 2: gods detest THEE for that thou hast destroyed me and
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  Speaker 2: this man and the whole state of Greece. Ret that
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  Speaker 2: I am. But my dear friends that accompany me in
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  Speaker 2: my lamentations are again present. Perhaps they will disturb the
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  Speaker 2: sleeper from his slumber, and will melt my eyes and
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  Speaker 2: tears when I behold my brother raving. Enter chorus, O,
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  Speaker 2: most dear woman, proceed with a gentle foot, Make no noise.
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  Speaker 2: Let there be heard no sound. For your friendliness is
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  Speaker 2: very kind, But to awake him will be a calamity
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  Speaker 2: to me. Hush, hush, gently, advance the tread of thy sandal.
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  Speaker 2: Make no noise, Let there be heard no sound. Move
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  Speaker 2: onward from that place, onward from before the couch.
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  Speaker 4: Behold I obeys.
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  Speaker 2: Speak to me, my friend, as the breathing of the
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  Speaker 2: soft reed pipe.
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  Speaker 4: See I utter a voice as low as an undernote.
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  Speaker 2: Aye, Thus come hither, Come hither, approach quietly, go quietly?
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  Speaker 2: Tell me for what purpose I pray? Are ye come?
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  Speaker 2: For he has fallen on his couch and been sleeping
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  Speaker 2: some time?
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  Speaker 12: How is he?
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  Speaker 4: Give us an account of him, my friend?
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  Speaker 2: What fortune can I say of him? And what his calamities?
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  Speaker 12: Still?
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, he breathes but sighs at short intervals.
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  Speaker 4: What sayest thou, oh the unhappy man?
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  Speaker 2: You will kill him if you move his eyelids, now
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  Speaker 2: that he is taking the sweet enjoyment of sleep.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunate on account of these most angry deeds from heaven, Oh, wretched,
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  Speaker 4: on account of thy sufferings.
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  Speaker 2: Alas alas Apollo himself unjust then spoke unjust things when
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  Speaker 2: at the tripod of themis he commanded the unhallowed inauspicious
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  Speaker 2: murder of my mother.
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  Speaker 4: Dost thou see he moves his body in the robes
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  Speaker 4: that cover him.
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  Speaker 2: You, by your cry, o wretch, have disturbed him from
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  Speaker 2: his sleep.
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  Speaker 4: I indeed think he is sleeping.
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  Speaker 2: Yet will you not depart from us? Will you not
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  Speaker 2: bend your footsteps back from the house, ceasing this noise?
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  Speaker 4: He sleeps? Oh, thou sayest well, venerable, venerable knight, Thou
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  Speaker 4: that dispensest sleep to languid mortals, Come from Erebus. Come,
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  Speaker 4: come borne on thy wings to the house of Agamemnon.
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  Speaker 4: For by our griefs and by our sufferings, we are
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  Speaker 4: quite undone.
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  Speaker 2: Undone, Ye were making a noise. No silently, silently repressing
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  Speaker 2: the high notes of your voice. Apart from his couch,
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  Speaker 2: you will enable him to have the tranquil enjoyment of sleep.
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  Speaker 4: Tell us what end to his miseries awaits him?
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  Speaker 3: Death?
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  Speaker 12: Death?
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  Speaker 2: What else can for he has no appetite for food.
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  Speaker 4: Death done is manifestly before him.
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  Speaker 2: Phoebus offered us as victims when he commanded the dreadful,
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  Speaker 2: a bored murder of our mother, that slew our father
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  Speaker 2: with justice.
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  Speaker 4: Indeed, but not well, Thou hast died.
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  Speaker 2: Thou hast died, O mother, Oh thou, that didst bring
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  Speaker 2: me forth, but hast killed the father and the children
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  Speaker 2: of thy blood. We perish, We perish even as two courses.
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  Speaker 2: For thou art among the dead, and the greatest part
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  Speaker 2: of my life is pasted in groans and wailings and
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  Speaker 2: knightly tears, marriageless, childless. Behold, how like a miserable wretch
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  Speaker 2: do I drag out my existence forever?
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  Speaker 4: Oh Virgin Electra, approach neer and look at thy brother
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  Speaker 4: has not died unobserved by thee. For by this excessive quiet,
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  Speaker 4: he doth not please me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh precious balm of sleep, Thou there relievest my malady.
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  Speaker 5: How pleasant didst thou come to me in the time
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  Speaker 5: of need? O divine oblivion of my sufferings? How wise
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  Speaker 5: thou art, and the goddess to be supplicated by all
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  Speaker 5: in distress. Whence in Heaven's name came I hither and
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  Speaker 5: how prought? For I remember not things past bereaved, as
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  Speaker 5: I am of my senses.
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  Speaker 2: My dearest brother, how didst thou delight me when thou
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  Speaker 2: didst fall asleep? Wilt thou, I touch thee and raise
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  Speaker 2: thy body up?
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  Speaker 5: Raise me, then, raise me and wipe the clotted foam
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  Speaker 5: from off my wretched mouth and from my eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Behold, the task is sweet, and I refuse not to
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  Speaker 2: administer to a brother's limbs with a sister's hand.
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  Speaker 5: Lay thy side by my side, and remove the squalid
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  Speaker 5: hair from my face. For I see but imperfectly with
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  Speaker 5: my eyes.
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  Speaker 2: O wretched head swordid with ringlets. How art thou disordered
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  Speaker 2: from long want of the bath?
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  Speaker 5: Lay me on the couch again, when my fit of
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  Speaker 5: madness gives me a respite. I am feeble and in
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  Speaker 5: my limbs.
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  Speaker 12: Behold.
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  Speaker 2: The couch is pleasant to the sick man, an irksome
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  Speaker 2: thing to keep, but still a necessary one.
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  Speaker 5: Again, Raise me upright, turn my body.
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  Speaker 4: Sick passings are hard to be pleased from their feebleness.
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  Speaker 2: Wilt thou set thy feet on the ground, putting forward
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  Speaker 2: thy long discontinued step. In all things, change is sweet.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, by all means, for this has a semblance of health.
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  Speaker 5: But the semblance is good, though it be distant from
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  Speaker 5: the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Here Now therefore, o my brother, while yet the furies
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  Speaker 2: suffer thee to have thy right faculties.
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  Speaker 5: Wilt thou tell any news? And if good, indeed thou
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  Speaker 5: art conferring pleasure. But if it pertaine at all to mischief,
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  Speaker 5: I have enough distress.
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  Speaker 2: Menelaeus has arrived, the brother of thy father, but his
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  Speaker 2: ships are moored in the knopoly in bay.
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  Speaker 5: How sayest is he come a light mine and thy sufferings,
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  Speaker 5: A man of kindred blood, and that hath received benefits
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  Speaker 5: from our father.
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  Speaker 2: He is come, take this assure proof of my words,
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  Speaker 2: bringing with him Helen from the walls of Troy.
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  Speaker 5: Had he been saved alone, he had been more blessed.
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  Speaker 5: But if he brings his wife, he has arrived with
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  Speaker 5: a great evil.
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  Speaker 2: Tyndarus begat an offspring of daughters, a conspicuous mark for blame,
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  Speaker 2: and infamous throughout Greece.
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  Speaker 5: Do thou then be unlike the bad, for it is
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  Speaker 5: in thy power. And not only say, but also hold
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  Speaker 5: these sentiments.
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  Speaker 2: Alas my brother, thine eye rolls wildly quick art thou
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  Speaker 2: changed to madness so late in thy senses? O, mother,
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  Speaker 2: I implore thee urte not on me those furies gazing blood,
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  Speaker 2: horrid with snakes.
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  Speaker 5: For these these are leaping around me.
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  Speaker 2: Remain a wretched man, calmly on thy couch, for thou
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  Speaker 2: seest none of those things which thou fanciest. Thou seest plainly, Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Phoebus, these dire goddesses in the shape of dogs will
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  Speaker 5: kill me, these gorgan visaged ministers of Hell.
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  Speaker 2: I will not let thee go, But putting my arm
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  Speaker 2: around thee will stop thy starting into those unfortunate convulsions.
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  Speaker 5: Loose me, thou art one of my furies, and seize
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  Speaker 5: me by the middle, that thou mayst hurl me into tarus.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wretched me, What assistance can I obtain? Since we
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  Speaker 2: have on us the vengeful wrath of heaven.
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  Speaker 5: Give me my bowl horn, the gift of Phoebus with
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  Speaker 5: which Apollo said I should repel the fiends if they
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  Speaker 5: appalled me by their maddened raging.
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  Speaker 2: Shall any god be wounded by mortal hand?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, she shall. If ye will not depart from my sight,
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  Speaker 5: hear ye not see ye not the winged shafts impelled
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  Speaker 5: from the distant wounding bow. Ha ha, Why tarry ye
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  Speaker 5: yet skim the high air with your wings and impeach
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  Speaker 5: the oracles of phoebus Ah. Why am I thus disquieted,
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  Speaker 5: heaving my panting breath from my lungs. Whither whither have
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  Speaker 5: I wandered from my couch? For from the waves again
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  Speaker 5: I see a calm sister. Why weepest hiding thine eyes
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  Speaker 5: beneath thy vest I am ashamed to have thee a
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  Speaker 5: partner in my sufferings, and to give a virgent trouble
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  Speaker 5: through my malady. Py not away on account of my misery.
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  Speaker 5: For thou indeed didst assent to this. But the shedding
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  Speaker 5: of my mother's blood was accomplished by me. But I
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  Speaker 5: blame Apollo, who, after having instigated me to a most
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  Speaker 5: unholy act with words, indeed consoled me, but not with deeds.
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  Speaker 5: But I think that my father, had I beholding him,
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  Speaker 5: asked him if it were right for me to slay
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  Speaker 5: my mother, would have put forth many supplications, beseeching me
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  Speaker 5: by this beard not to impel my sword to the
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  Speaker 5: slaughter of her who bore me, if neither he thereby
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  Speaker 5: could be restored to life. And I, thus wretched, must
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  Speaker 5: go through such miseries. And now then unveil thyself, my sister,
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  Speaker 5: and cease from tears, even though we be very miserable.
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  Speaker 5: But when thou seest me desponding, do thou restrain my
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  Speaker 5: distraction and that which preys upon my mind, and console me.
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  Speaker 5: But when thou grownest, it becomes my duty to come
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  Speaker 5: to THEE and suggest words of comfort. For these are
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  Speaker 5: the good officer's friends ought to render each other. But
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  Speaker 5: go thou into the house, o unfortunate sister, and stretched
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  Speaker 5: at full length, compose thy sleepless eyelids to sleep, and
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  Speaker 5: take refreshment, and pour the bath upon thy fair skin.
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  Speaker 5: For if thou forsakest me, or get'est any illness, by
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  Speaker 5: continually sitting by me, we perish. For THEE I have
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  Speaker 5: my only succor by the rest. As thou seest abandon.
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  Speaker 2: This cannot be with THEE. Will I choose to die
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  Speaker 2: THEE to live, for it is the same. For if
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: then shouldst die, what can I do a woman? How
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: shall I be preserved alone and destitute, without a brother,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: without a father, without a friend. But if it seemeth
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: good to THEE, these things it is my duty to do.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: But recline thy body on the bed, and do not
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: to such a degree conceive to be real whatever frightens
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: and startles thee from the couch, But keep quiet on
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: the bed strewn for thee. For though thou be not ill,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: but only seem to be ill, Still, this even is
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: an evil and distress to mortals.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Alas alas, oh swift winged, graving goddesses, who keep up
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: the dance. Not out of bacchis who tears and grounds
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: you dark omnied as you that fly through the wide
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: extended air, executing vengeance, executing slaughter. If you do I supplicate,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I supplicate, suffer the offspring of vagon Memnon to forget
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: his furious madness. Alas for his sufferings, what were there
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: that eagerly grasping at thou unhappily pertiest, having received from
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: the tripod the oracle which Phoebus spake on that pavement,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Where are said to be the recesses in the midst
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: of the globe? Oh Jupiter, what pities there was this
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: discontention of slaughter that comes persecuting thee wretched, to whom
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: some evil genius cast tear upon terr transporting to thy
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: house the blood of thy mother, which drives thee frenzied.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Thus I be wail, I bewail. Great prosperity is not
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: lasting among mortals, but as the sale of the swift bark,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: some deedy, having shaken him, hath sunk him in the
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: veracious and destructive waves of tremendous evils, as in the
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: waves of the ocean. For what other family ought I
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: to reverence? Yet before that sprung from divine nuptials, sprung
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: from Tantalus. But lo, the king, the Prince Menelaus, is coming.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: But he is very easily discernible from the elegance of
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: his person as king of the house of the Tantalida.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: O thou that didst correct the army of a thousand
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: vessels to Asia's land? Hail, But thou comest hither with
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: good fortune, having obtained the object of thy wishes from
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: the gods.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Enter Menalaeus, O pallace.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: In some respect, indeed I behold thee with pleasure coming
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: from Troy. But in other respect I groan when I
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: see THEE, for never yet saw I any other house
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: more completely encircled round with lamentable woes. For I was
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: made acquainted with the misfortune that befell Agamemnon and his
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: death by what death he perished at the hands of
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: his wife. When I was landing my ships at Malia,
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: but from the waves the prophet of the mariners declared
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: unto me the foreboding Glaucus, the son of Nereus, unerring God,
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: who told me thus in evident form. Standing by me, Menelaeus,
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: thy brother Eliath dead, having fallen in his last bath,
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: which his wife prepared. But he filled both me and
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: my sailors with many tears. But when I came to
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: the Knaplian shore, my wife having already landed there, expecting
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: to clasp in my friendly embraces Orestes, the son of Agamemnon,
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: and his mother, as being in prosperity, I heard from
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: some fisherman the unhallowed murder of the daughter of Tyndareth.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: And now tell me, Maidens, where is the son of Agamemnon,
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: who dared these terrible deeds of evil? For he was
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: an infant in Clytemnestra's arms at that time when I
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: left the palace on my way to Troy, so that
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: I should not know him.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Were I to see him I Menilaeus mo orestes, whom
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: thou seekest, I of my own accord will declare my ear.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: But first I touch thy knees in supplication, putting up
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: prayers from my mouth, not using the sacred branch. Save me.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: But thou art come in the very season of my sufferings.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: Oh, ye, Gods, what do I behold? Whom of the
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: dead do I see?
• 24:20
  Speaker 12: Aye?
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Well, thou sayest the dead? For in my state of
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: suffering I live not but see the light.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: Thou, wretched man, How disordered thou art in thy squalid hair.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Not the appearance, but the deeds torment me.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: But thou glarest dreadfully with thy shriveled eyeballs.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: My body is vanished, but my name has not left.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Me, alas thy uncomeliness of form, which has appeared to
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: me beyond conception.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: I am he the murderer of my wretched mother.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: I have heard, but spare a little the recital of.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Thy I spare it. But in woes the deity is
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: rich to me.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: What dost thou suffer? What malady destroys thee?
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: The conviction that I am conscious of having perpetrated dreadful deeds?
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: How sayest thou, plainness and not obscurity is wisdom.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Sorrow is chiefly what destroys me.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: She is a dreadful goddess. But sorrow admits of cure.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: And fits of madness, a revenge for my mother's blood.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: But when didst first have the raging? What day was
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: it then?
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: That day in which I heaped the tomb on my mother?
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: What in the house or sitting at the pyre.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: As I was guarding by night lest anyone should bear
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: off her bones?
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: Was anyone else present who supported thy body.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: Piladies, who perpetrated with me the vengeance and death of
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: my mother?
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: But by what visions art thou thus afflicted?
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: I appear to behold three virgins like the Knight.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: I know whom thou meanest, but am unwilling to name them.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Yes, for they are awful, But forbear from speaking such
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: high polished words.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Do these drive thee to distraction? On account of this
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: kindred murder?
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: Alas me for the persecutions with which wretched I am driven?
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: It is not strange that those who do strange deeds
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: should suffer them.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: But we have whereto we may transfer the criminality of
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: the mischance.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: Say not the death of thy father, for this is
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: not wise.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Phoebus, who commanded us to perpetrate the slaying of our mother.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: Being more ignorant than to no equity and justice.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: We are servants of the gods, whatever those gods be.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: And then does not Apollo assist THEE in thy miseries?
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: He is always about to do it. But such are
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: the gods by nature.
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: But how long a time has thy mother's breath gone
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: from her?
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: This is a sixth day, since the funeral pyre is
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: still warm.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: How quickly have the goddesses come to demand of THEE
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: thy mother's blood?
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: I am not wise, but a true friend to my friends.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: But what then doth the revenge of thy father profit THEE?
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Nothing?
• 27:14
  Speaker 13: Yet?
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: But I consider what is in prospect in the same
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: light as a thing not done.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: But regarding the city, how standest thou having done these things?
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: We are hated to that degree that no one speaks.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: To us, Nor hast thou washed thy blood from thy hands?
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: According to the laws?
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: How can I, for I am shut out from the
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: houses whithersoever I go.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: Who of the citizens thus content to drive THEE from
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: the land?
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: He acts imputing to my father the hatred which arose
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: on account of Troy.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: I understand the death of Palamede takes its vengeance on thee, in.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Which at least I had no share. But I perish
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: by the three.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: But who else is it? Perchance one of the friends
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: of Egisthus.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: They persecute me, whom now the city obeys.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: But does the city suffer thee to wield agamemnon scepter?
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: How should they, who no longer suffer us to live?
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: Doing what which thou canst tell me as a clear fact?
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: This very day sentence will be passed upon.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: Us to be exiled from this city, or to die.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Or not to die, to die by being stoned with
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: stones by the citizens.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: And dost thou not fly then escaping beyond the boundaries
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: of the country, How can we, for.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: We are surrounded on every side by brazen arms.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: By private enemies, or by the hand of argos by.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: All the citizens, that I may die?
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: The word is brief, Oh, unhappy man, thou art come
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: to the extreme of misfortune on thee.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: My hope builds her escape from evils. But thyself happy,
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: coming among the distressed, impart thy good fortune to thy friends,
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: and be not the only man to retain a benefit
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: thou hast received, but undertake also services in thy turn,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: paying their father's kindness to those to whom thou oughtest.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: For those friends have the name, not the reality, who
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: are not friends in adversity, And.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: See the spartan Tindarus is toiling hither with his aged
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: foot in a black vest and shorn his luck's cut off,
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: in mourning for his daughter.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: I am undone o Menelaeus lo Tyindarus is coming towards us,
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: to come before whose presence most of all men's shame
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: covereth me on account of what has been done. For
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: he used to nurture me when I was little, and
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: satiated me with many kisses, dandling in his arms Agameennon's
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: boy and Lido with him, honoring me no less than
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: the twin born of Jove, for which O, my wretched
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: heart and soul, I have given no good return. What
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: dark veil can I take from my countenance? What cloud
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: can I place before me that I may avoid the
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: glances of the old man's eyes?
• 30:11
  Speaker 13: Enter Tindaris, Well, where can I see my daughter's husband Menelaius,
• 30:18
  Speaker 13: For as I was pouring my libations on the tomb
• 30:21
  Speaker 13: of Clytemnestra. I heard that he was come to Nauplia
• 30:24
  Speaker 13: with his wife. Save through length of years conduct me,
• 30:29
  Speaker 13: for I long to stand by his hand and salute him.
• 30:33
  Speaker 13: Seeing my friend after a long lapse of time.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: Oh hail, old man, who sharest thy bed with jove,
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: Oh hail thou.
• 30:43
  Speaker 13: Also Menelaius, my dear relation, Ah, what an evil is
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: it not to know the future? This dragon here, the
• 30:54
  Speaker 13: murderer of his mother, glaresfo the house. His pestilential gleams
• 30:59
  Speaker 13: the object to my detestation. Menelaius, dost thou speak to
• 31:05
  Speaker 13: this unholy wretch?
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: Why not? He is the son of a father who
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: was dear to me?
• 31:11
  Speaker 13: What was he sprung from him? Such as he is?
• 31:16
  Speaker 12: He was?
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: But though he be unfortunate, he should be respected.
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: Having been a long time with barbarians, Thou art thyself
• 31:24
  Speaker 13: turned barbarian?
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Nay.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: It is the Grecian fashion always to honor one of
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: kindred blood.
• 31:32
  Speaker 13: Yes, and also not to wish to be above the laws.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: Everything proceeding from necessity is considered as subservient to her
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Among the wise, Do thou then keep to this?
• 31:44
  Speaker 13: But I'll have none of it.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: No, For anger joined with thine age is not wisdom
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: with this man?
• 31:52
  Speaker 13: What controversy can they be regarding wisdom? If what things
• 31:56
  Speaker 13: are virtuous and what are not virtuous? A plain to all?
• 32:00
  Speaker 13: What man was ever more unwise than this man, who
• 32:04
  Speaker 13: did not indeed consider justice nor reply to the common
• 32:08
  Speaker 13: existing law of the Grecians. For after that Agamemnon breathed
• 32:13
  Speaker 13: forth he last struck by my daughter on the head
• 32:18
  Speaker 13: her most fouled deed. For never will I approve of this.
• 32:23
  Speaker 13: It behooved him indeedly against her, a sacred charge of bloodshed,
• 32:27
  Speaker 13: following up the accusation, and to cast his mother from
• 32:31
  Speaker 13: out of the house. And he would have taken the
• 32:35
  Speaker 13: wise side in the calamity, and would have kept a law,
• 32:39
  Speaker 13: and would have been passed. But now has he come
• 32:42
  Speaker 13: to the same fate with his mother, For with justice
• 32:46
  Speaker 13: thinking her wicked, himself has become more wicked in slaying
• 32:51
  Speaker 13: his mother. But thus much millerlaires, will I ask thee
• 32:56
  Speaker 13: if the wife that sheared his bed were to kill him,
• 33:00
  Speaker 13: had his son again killed his mother in return? And
• 33:04
  Speaker 13: he that is born of him shall expiate the murder
• 33:06
  Speaker 13: with murder.
• 33:08
  Speaker 12: Whither then, will the.
• 33:09
  Speaker 13: Extremes of these evils proceed? Well? Did our fathers have
• 33:14
  Speaker 13: all lay down these things? They suffered not him to
• 33:17
  Speaker 13: come into the sight of their eyes, nor to their converse,
• 33:21
  Speaker 13: who was under unattainer of blood. But they made him
• 33:25
  Speaker 13: atone by banishment. They suffer'd, however, nun to kill him
• 33:29
  Speaker 13: in return, for always were one about to be attainted
• 33:32
  Speaker 13: of murder, taking the pollution last into his hands. But
• 33:38
  Speaker 13: I hate, indeed impious women, but first among them my daughter,
• 33:43
  Speaker 13: who slew her husband. But never will I approve of Helen,
• 33:47
  Speaker 13: thy wife, nor would I speak to her. Neither do
• 33:51
  Speaker 13: I commend thee for going to the plain of Troy
• 33:53
  Speaker 13: on account of a perfidious woman. But I will defend
• 33:57
  Speaker 13: the law as far at least as I am able,
• 34:01
  Speaker 13: putting a stop to this brutish and murderous practice, which
• 34:05
  Speaker 13: is ever destructive, both of the country and the state.
• 34:09
  Speaker 13: For what feelings of humanity hadst thou, thou wretched man,
• 34:14
  Speaker 13: when she bared her breast in supplication thy mother? Ay, Indeed,
• 34:20
  Speaker 13: though I witness not that scene of misery, melt in
• 34:23
  Speaker 13: ma age at eyes with tears through wretchedness. One thing, however,
• 34:29
  Speaker 13: goes to the scale of my arguments. Thou art both
• 34:32
  Speaker 13: hated by the gods and sufferest vengeance of thy mother,
• 34:37
  Speaker 13: wandering about with madness and terrors. Why must I hear
• 34:42
  Speaker 13: by the testimony of others? What is in my power
• 34:45
  Speaker 13: to see that thou mayest know? Then once for all menelayus.
• 34:50
  Speaker 13: Do not things contrary to the gods through thy wishes
• 34:54
  Speaker 13: to assist this man, but suffer him to be slain
• 34:57
  Speaker 13: by the citizens with stones, or set not thy foot
• 35:01
  Speaker 13: on spartan ground. But my daughter, in dying, met with justice.
• 35:07
  Speaker 13: But it was not fitting that she should die by him.
• 35:10
  Speaker 13: In other respects, indeed have I been a happy man,
• 35:14
  Speaker 13: except in my daughters. But in this I am not happy.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: He is enviable, who is fortunate in his children, and
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: has not on him some notorious calamities. O, old man,
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: I tremble to speak to thee wherein I am about
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: to grieve THEE and thy mind.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: But I am unholy, and that I slew my mother,
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: but wholly at least in another point of view. Having
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: avenged my father, let then thine age, which hinders me
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: through fear from speaking, be removed out of the way
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: of my words, And I will go on in a
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: direct path. But now I do fear thy gray hairs.
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: What could I do for oppose the facts two against two?
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: My father indeed begat me, but thy daughter brought me
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: forth afield, receiving the seed from another. But without a
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: father there never could be a child. I reasoned therefore
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: myself that I should assist the prime author of my birth,
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: rather than the element which under him produced me. But
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: thy daughter, I am ashamed to call her mother, in
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: secret and unchaste nuptials, had approached the bed of another
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: man of myself. If I speak ill of her, shall
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: I be speaking? But yet I will tell it Egisus
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: was her secret husband in her palace. Him I slew,
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: and after him I sacrificed my mother, doing indeed unholy things,
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: but avenging my father. But as touching those things for
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: which thou threatenest that I must be stoned. Here, how
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: I shall assist all Greece. For if the woman shall
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: arrive at such a pitch of boldness as to murder
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: the men making good their escape with regard to their children,
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: seeking to captivate their pity by their breasts, it would
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: be as nothing with them to slay their husbands having
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: any pretense that might be chance. But I, having done
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: dreadful things, as thou sayest, have put a stop to
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: this law. But hating my mother deservedly, I slew her,
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: who betrayed her husband, absent from home in arms the
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: Generalissimo of the whole land of Greece, and kept not
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: her bed undefiled. But when she perceived that she had
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: done amiss, she inflicted not vengeance on herself, but that
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: she might not suffer vengeance from her husband. Punished and
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: slew my father by the gods. In no good cause
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: have I named the gods pleading against a charge of murder?
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Had I, by my silence praised my mother's actions, What
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: then would the deceased have done to me? To my mother, indeed,
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: the furies are present as allies. But would they not
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: be present to him who has received the greater injury?
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: Would he, not, detesting me, have haunted me with the furies? Thou, then,
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: o old man, by begetting a bad daughter, hast destroyed me.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: For through her boldness deprived of my father, I became
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: a matricide. Dost see Telemachus slew not the wife of Ulysses,
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: For she married not a husband on a husband, but
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: her marriage bed remains unpolluted. In the palace, dost see Apollo,
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: who dwelling in his habitation in the midst of the earth,
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: gives the most clear oracles to mortals, by whom we
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: are entirely guided. Whatever he may say on him relying,
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: slew I my mother, twas he who erred not I,
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: what could I do? Is not the God sufficient for me,
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: who transfer the deed to him to do away with
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: a pollution? Whither then can any fly for succor, unless
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: he that commanded me shall deliver me from death. But
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: say not these things have been done not well, But
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: say not fortunately for us who did them. But to
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: whatsoever men their marriages are well established, there is a
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: happy life. But to those to whom they fall not
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: out well with regard to their affairs, both at home
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: and abroad, they are unfortunate.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: Women were born always to be in the way of
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: what happened to men, to the making of things unfortunate.
• 39:43
  Speaker 13: Since thou art bold and yieldest not to my speech,
• 39:47
  Speaker 13: but thus answerest me so as to grieve my mind,
• 39:51
  Speaker 13: thou wilt rather inflame me to urge thy death. But
• 39:55
  Speaker 13: this I shall consider a handsome addition to those labors
• 39:58
  Speaker 13: which I came, namely to deck my daughter's tomb. For
• 40:03
  Speaker 13: going to the multitude of the argives assembl'd, I will
• 40:07
  Speaker 13: rouse the state, willing and not willing, to pass the
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  Speaker 13: sentence of being ston'd on THEE and on thy sister.
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  Speaker 13: But she is worthy of death rather than THEE who
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  Speaker 13: irritated THEE against her mother, always peeling in thine ear
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  Speaker 13: words to increase thy hatred, relating dream she had of Agamemnon.
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  Speaker 13: And this also that the infernal guards detest the bed
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  Speaker 13: of Agisthus. For even here on earth it were hard
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  Speaker 13: to be endur'd until she set the house in flames
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  Speaker 13: with far more strong than vulcans Menelaeus. But to THEE,
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  Speaker 13: I speak this, and will moreover perform it. If thou
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  Speaker 13: regard my hate and my alliance, ward not off death
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  Speaker 13: from this man in opposition to the gods, but suffer
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  Speaker 13: him to be slain by the citizens with stones, or
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  Speaker 13: set not thy foot on spartan ground. Thus much having heard, depart,
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  Speaker 13: nor choose the imparets for thy friends passing over the pies.
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  Speaker 13: But oh attendants conduct this from this house.
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  Speaker 5: Depart that the remainder of my speech may reach this
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  Speaker 5: man uninterrupted by the clamors of thy age. Menelaeus, whither
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  Speaker 5: dost thou Roman thought, entering on a double path of
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  Speaker 5: double care.
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  Speaker 6: Suffer me having some thoughts with myself. I am perplexed
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  Speaker 6: to which side of fortune to turn me.
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: Do not make up thy opinion, But having first heard
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  Speaker 5: my words, then deliberate.
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  Speaker 6: Say on, for thou hast spoken rightly. But there are
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  Speaker 6: seasons where silence may be better than talking, And there
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: are seasons where talking may be better than silence.
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  Speaker 5: I will speak then forthwith long speeches have the preference
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  Speaker 5: before short ones, and are more plain to hear. Give
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  Speaker 5: thou to me nothing of what thou hast, o, Menelaeus,
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  Speaker 5: but what thou hast received from my father Return. I
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  Speaker 5: mean not riches, yet riches which are the most dear
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  Speaker 5: of what I possess. If thou wilt preserve my life,
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  Speaker 5: say I am unjust. I ought to receive from thee
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  Speaker 5: instead of this evil, something contrary to what justice demands
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  Speaker 5: for Agamennon, my father, having collected Greece in arms in
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: a way justice did not demand, went to Troy, not
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: having erred himself, but in order to set right the
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: error and injustice of thy wife. This one thing. Indeed,
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: thou oughtest to give me for one thing, But he
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  Speaker 5: as friends should be, for friends of a truth, exposed
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  Speaker 5: his person for thee toiling at the shield, that thou
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  Speaker 5: mightst receive back thy wife. Repay me then this kindness
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: for that which thou receivest there toiling for one day
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  Speaker 5: and standing as my son sucker, not completing ten years.
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: But the sacrifice of my sister, which Aldus received. This
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: I suffer thee to have. Do not kill Hermione. I
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  Speaker 5: ask it not for I being in the state in
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: which I now am. Thou must of necessity have the advantage,
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: and I must suffer it to be so. But grant
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  Speaker 5: my life to my wretched father and my sisters, who
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  Speaker 5: has been a virgin a long time for dying, I
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: shall leave my father's house destitute. Thou wilt say, impossible,
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: This is the very thing I have been urging. It
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: behooves friends to help their friends in misfortunes. But when
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: the God gives prosperity, what need is there of friends
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: for the God himself? Suffius being willing to assist, Thou
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  Speaker 5: appearedst to all the Greeks to be fond of thy wife.
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: And this I say, not stealing under THEE imperceptibly with
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: flattery by her. I am or THEE, oh wretched me,
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  Speaker 5: for my woes to what have I come? But why
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  Speaker 5: must I suffer?
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  Speaker 12: Thus?
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  Speaker 5: For in behalf of the whole house, I make this supplication, O,
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  Speaker 5: divine brother of my father. Conceive that the dead man
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  Speaker 5: beneath the earth hears these things, and that his spirit
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: is hovering over THEE and speaks what I speak. These
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: things have I said with tears and groans and miseries,
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  Speaker 5: and have prayed earnestly, looking for preservation, which all and
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  Speaker 5: not I only seek.
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  Speaker 4: I to implore THEE, although a woman, Yet still I
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  Speaker 4: implore THEE to succor those in need.
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  Speaker 6: But thou art able orestes. I indeed reverence thy person.
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  Speaker 6: And I am willing to labor with THEE in thy misfortunes.
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: For thus it is right to endure together the misfortunes
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  Speaker 6: of one's relations, if the God gives the ability even
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  Speaker 6: so far as to die and to kill the adversary.
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: But this ability again I want from the gods, for
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: I am come, having my single spear unaided by allies,
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: having wandered with infinite labors, with small assistance of friends
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: left me in battle. Therefore we cannot come off superior
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: to Pelasgian argos. But if we can, by soft speeches
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  Speaker 6: to that hope, are we equal? For how can anyone
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: achieve great actions with small means? For when the rabble
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: is in full force falling into a rage, it is
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: equally difficult to extinguish as a fierce fire. But if
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: one quietly yields to it as it is spreading, and
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: gives into it, watching well his opportunity, perhaps it may
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: spend its rage. But when it has remitted from its blast,
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: you may without difficulty have it your own way as
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: much as you please. For there is inherent in them pity.
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: But there is inherent also so vehement passion to one
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: who carefully watches his opportunity a most excellent advantage. But
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: I will go and endeavor to persuade Tyndarus and the
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  Speaker 6: city to use their great power in a becoming manner.
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: For a ship the main sheet stretched out to a
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  Speaker 6: violent degree, is wont to pitch, but stands upright again
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  Speaker 6: if you slacken the main sheet. For the god hates
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: two great vehemence, and the citizens hate it. But I
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: must I speak as I mean, save THEE by wisdom,
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  Speaker 6: not by opposing my superiors. But I cannot by force,
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: as perchance thou thinkest preserve THEE. For it is no
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: easy matter to erect from one single spear trophies from
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: the evils which are about THEE. For never have we
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: approached the land of Argos by way of supplication, But
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: now there is necessity for the wise to become the slaves.
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  Speaker 5: Fortune exit menelayus, O thou a mayor's cipher in other things,
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  Speaker 5: except in warring for the sake of a woman, O
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: thou most base in avenging thy friends, dost thou fly
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  Speaker 5: turning away from me? But all Agamenon's surfaces are gone.
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: Thou wert then without friends, O my father, in thy affliction,
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: alas me I am betrayed, And there no longer are
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: any hopes whither turning I may escape death from the Argives,
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: for he was the refuge of my safety. But I
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: see this, most dear of men, the ladies coming with
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: hasty step from the Phocians, a pleasant sight, a man
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  Speaker 5: faithful in adversity, more grateful to behold than the calm
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: to the mariners.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Pilodes.
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  Speaker 7: I came through the city with a quick step than
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  Speaker 7: I ought, having heard of the council of State assembled,
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  Speaker 7: and seeing it plainly myself against THEE and thy sister,
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  Speaker 7: as about to kill you instantly. What is this? How
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: art thou in what state? Almost dear to me of
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  Speaker 7: my companions and kindred? For all these things art thou
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  Speaker 7: to me?
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  Speaker 5: We are gone briefly to show thee my calamities.
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  Speaker 7: Thou wilt have ruined me too, For the things of
• 48:29
  Speaker 7: friends are.
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: Common Menelaeus has behaved most basely toward me and my sister.
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  Speaker 7: It is to be expected that the husband of a
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: bad wife be bad.
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  Speaker 5: He is come and has done just as much from
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: me as if he had not come. What is he,
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: in truth come to this land after a long season?
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: But nevertheless he was very soon discovered to be too
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: base to his friends.
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  Speaker 7: And has he brought in his ship with him his
• 48:58
  Speaker 7: most infamous wife.
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  Speaker 5: Not hear her, but she brought him hither.
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: Where is she, who, beyond any woman, destroyed most of
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  Speaker 7: the Grecians.
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  Speaker 5: In my palace? If I may indeed be allowed to
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  Speaker 5: call its mine.
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  Speaker 7: But What words Didst Thou say to thy father's brother.
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  Speaker 5: I requested him not to suffer me and my sister
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  Speaker 5: to be slain by the citizens by the gods.
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  Speaker 7: What said he to this request? This I wished to know?
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: He declined from motives of prudence, as bad friends act
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: towards their friends.
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  Speaker 7: Going on what ground of excuse this? Having learned, I
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: am in possession of everything.
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: The father himself came, he that begat such excellent daughters.
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  Speaker 7: Tindorus, you mean, perhaps enraged with THEE on account of
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: his daughter?
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: You are right, he paid more attention to his ties
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: with him than to his ties with my father.
• 49:56
  Speaker 7: And dared he not being present, to take off at
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  Speaker 7: thy troubles.
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  Speaker 5: No, for he was not born a warrior, but brave
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  Speaker 5: among women.
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  Speaker 7: Thou art then in the greatest miseries, And it is
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  Speaker 7: necessary for THEE to die.
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  Speaker 5: The citizens must pass their vote on us for the
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  Speaker 5: murder we have committed.
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  Speaker 7: Which vote? What will it decide? Tell me? For I
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  Speaker 7: am in fear.
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  Speaker 5: Either to die or live? Not many words on matters
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  Speaker 5: of great import.
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  Speaker 7: Come fly and quit the palace with thy sister.
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  Speaker 5: Seest thou not. We are watched by guards on every side.
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  Speaker 7: I saw the streets of the city lined with arms.
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  Speaker 5: We are invested, as to our persons, as a city
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  Speaker 5: by the enemy.
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  Speaker 7: Now ask me also what I suffer, for I too,
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  Speaker 7: am undone.
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  Speaker 5: By whom this would be an evil added to my evils.
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  Speaker 7: Struthius, my father, being enraged, hath driven me an ec
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  Speaker 7: exile from.
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: His house, bringing against THEE some private charge or one
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: in common with the citizens.
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  Speaker 7: Because I perpetrated with THEE the murder of thy mother,
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  Speaker 7: he banished me, calling me unholy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thou unfortunate. It seems that thou also sufferest for
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: my evils.
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  Speaker 7: We have not men allows his manners. This must be born.
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  Speaker 5: Dost thou not fear lest argo should wish to kill thee,
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  Speaker 5: as it does also me.
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  Speaker 7: We do not belong to these to punish, but to
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: the land of the Phocians.
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: The populace is a terrible thing when they have evil leaders.
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: But when they have good ones, they always deliberate good things.
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: Be it so we must speak on our common business,
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: on what affair of necessity. Supposing I should go to
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: the citizens and say that thou hast acted justly iy
• 51:56
  Speaker 7: avenging my father, I fear they might not receive thee gladly.
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  Speaker 5: But shall I die then shuddering in silence?
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  Speaker 7: This were cowardly? How then can I do hast thou
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  Speaker 7: any chance of safety? If thou remainest I have none?
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  Speaker 7: But going? Is there any hope of thy being preserved
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  Speaker 7: from thy miseries?
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  Speaker 5: Should it chance well there might be?
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  Speaker 7: Is not this better than remaining?
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: Shall I go?
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  Speaker 7: Then dying?
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  Speaker 14: Thus at least thou wilt die more honorably. And I
• 52:31
  Speaker 14: have a just cause only pray for its appearing, So
• 52:35
  Speaker 14: thou sayest, well, this way I avoid the imputation of cowardice.
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  Speaker 7: More than by tarrying here.
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  Speaker 5: And someone perchance may pity me.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, for thy nobleness of birth is a great thing.
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: Indignant at my father's death. All this in prospect, go
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: I must, for it is not manly to die, and gloriously.
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  Speaker 7: These sentiments I pray.
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  Speaker 5: Shall we then tell these things to my sister? No,
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: by the gods, why there might be tears?
• 53:07
  Speaker 7: This then is a great omen.
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: Clearly it is better to be silent.
• 53:12
  Speaker 7: Thou art a gainer by delay?
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: This one thing only opposes me.
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  Speaker 7: What new thing again is this? Thou sayest I.
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: Fear lest the goddesses should stop me with their torments.
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  Speaker 7: But I will take care of THEE.
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: It is a difficult and dangerous task to touch a
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: man thus disordered.
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  Speaker 7: Not for me to touch THEE.
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: Take care how thou art partner of my madness.
• 53:35
  Speaker 7: Let not this be thought of.
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: Wilt thou not then be timid to assist me?
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  Speaker 7: No, for timidity is a great evil to friends. Go
• 53:44
  Speaker 7: on now the helm of my foot, having a charge
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: worthy of a friend, and.
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: Guide me to my father's tomb.
• 53:53
  Speaker 7: To what end is this?
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: That I may supplicate him to save me?
• 53:58
  Speaker 7: This at least is just.
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: But let me not see my mother's monument, for she.
• 54:04
  Speaker 7: Was an enemy. But hasten that the decree of the
• 54:08
  Speaker 7: argives condemn THEE. Not before thou goest leaning thy side,
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  Speaker 7: weary with disease on mine. Since I will conduct THEE
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: through the city, little caring for the multitude, nothing ashamed.
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  Speaker 7: For where shall I show myself, thy friend, if I
• 54:26
  Speaker 7: assist THEE? Not when thou art in perilous condition.
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: This it is to have companions, not relationship alone. So
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: that a man who is congenial in manners, though a
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: stranger in blood, is a better friend for a man
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: to have than ten thousand relatives.
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  Speaker 1: Orestes by Euripides, translated by Theodore Buckley, Part two.
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: The great happiness and the valor high, sounding throughout Greece
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: and by the channels of the Simuez, has again withdrawn
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  Speaker 4: from the fortune of the Atrida as of old, from
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: the ancient calamity of the house, when the strife of
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: the golden lamb arose among the descendants of Tantalus, most
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: shocking feasts, and the slaughter of noble children. From whence murder,
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: responsive to murder fails not to attain on the two
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: sons of Atrios. What seems good is not good to
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: gash apparent skin with a fierce hand and brandish the
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: sword black stained with blood in the sunbeams. But on
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: the other hand, to act wickedly is mad in paty
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: and the folly of evil minded men. But the wretched
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: daughter of Tindarus, in the fair of death, shrieked down
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  Speaker 4: my son, Thou darest impious deeds, killing thy mother, Do not,
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  Speaker 4: attending to the gratification of thy father, kindle an everlasting disgrace.
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  Speaker 4: What malady, or what tess or what pity on earth
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  Speaker 4: is greater than to him? Brew one's hand in a
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: mother's blood? What a deed? What a deed? Having performed?
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: Does the son of Agamemnon brave with madness, a prey
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: to the Omenidis, marked for death? Giddy with his rolling eyes? Oh,
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  Speaker 4: wretched on account of his mother? When thou seeing the
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: breast beared from the robe of golden texture, he stabbed
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  Speaker 4: the mother in retaliation for the father's sufferings.
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  Speaker 2: Enter Electra, ye virgins. Has the wretched Orestes overcome with
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: heaven inflicted madness, rushed anywhere from this house.
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  Speaker 4: By no means? But he is gone to the argive
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: of people to undergo the trial proposed regarding life, by
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: which you must either live or die?
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: Alas me, what thing has he done? But who persuaded him?
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: Pilardus? But this messenger seemed soon about to inform us
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  Speaker 4: of what has passed their concerning thy brother.
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  Speaker 8: Enter a messenger, all wretched, hapless, daughter of the chief Agamemnon.
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  Speaker 8: Revered Electra. Here the unfortunate words which I am come
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  Speaker 8: to bring.
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  Speaker 2: Alas alas we are undone. This thou signifiest by thy speech,
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: for thou comest as it seems a messenger of woes.
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  Speaker 8: It has been carried by the vote of the Paleskians,
• 57:34
  Speaker 8: that thy brother and thou must die this day, ah me.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: The expected event has come, which long since, fearing, I
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: pined away with lamentations on account of what was in prospect.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: But what was the debate? What arguments among the argives
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: condemned us and confirmed our sentence of death? Tell me,
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: old man, whether by the hand raised to stone me
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: or by the sword must I breathe out my soul?
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: Having this calamity in common with my brother.
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  Speaker 8: I chanced, indeed to be entering the gates from the country,
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  Speaker 8: anxious to hear both what regarded thee and what regarded orestes.
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  Speaker 8: For at all times I had a favorable inclination toward
• 58:20
  Speaker 8: thy father and thy house fed me poor, indeed, but
• 58:25
  Speaker 8: noble in my conduct towards friends. But I see the
• 58:29
  Speaker 8: crowd going and sitting down on an eminence where they
• 58:32
  Speaker 8: say Danaeus first collected the people to a common council
• 58:36
  Speaker 8: when he suffered punishment at the hands of Egyptus. But
• 58:40
  Speaker 8: seeing this concourse, I asked one of the citizens, what
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  Speaker 8: new thing is stirring in Argos? Has any message from
• 58:48
  Speaker 8: hostile powers? Roused the city of the Danaides, But he said,
• 58:54
  Speaker 8: seest thou not this Orestes walking near us, who is
• 58:57
  Speaker 8: about to run in the contest of life and death.
• 59:01
  Speaker 8: But I see an unexpected sight, which, oh that I
• 59:05
  Speaker 8: had never seen, Pilades and thy brother walking together, the
• 59:10
  Speaker 8: one indeed broken with sickness, but the other like a
• 59:13
  Speaker 8: brother sympathizing with his friend, tending his weakened state with
• 59:18
  Speaker 8: fostering care. But when the assemblies of the archives was full,
• 59:23
  Speaker 8: a herald stood forth and said, who wishes to speak
• 59:28
  Speaker 8: on the question whether it is right that Orestes, who
• 59:32
  Speaker 8: has killed his mother, should die or not? And on
• 59:37
  Speaker 8: this Talphibius rises, who, in conjunction with thy father, laid
• 59:42
  Speaker 8: waste the Phrygians. But he spoke words of divided import,
• 59:47
  Speaker 8: being the constant slave of those in power, struck with
• 59:50
  Speaker 8: admiration indeed at thy father, but not commanding thy brother,
• 59:55
  Speaker 8: speciously mixing up words of bad import because he laid
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  Speaker 8: down no good lan toward his parents. But he was
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 8: continually casting a smiling glance on Egistus's friend. For such
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 8: is this kind. Heralds always dance attendance on the prosperous,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 8: But that man is their friend, whoever made chance to
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 8: have power in the state and to be in office.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 8: But next to him Prince diomed Harand he indeed was
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 8: for suffering them to kill neither thee nor thy brother.
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  Speaker 8: But bid them observe piety by punishing you with banishment.
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  Speaker 8: But some indeed murmured their assent that he spoke well,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 8: but others praised him not. And after him rises up
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 8: some man, intemperate in speech, powerful in boldness, an argive,
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  Speaker 8: yet not an argive forced upon us, relying both on
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 8: the tumult and on ignorant boldness, prompt by persuasion to
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 8: involve them in some mischief. For when a man sweet
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 8: in words, holding bad sentiments, perswads the multitude, it is
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 8: a great evil to the city. But as many as
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 8: always advise good things with understanding, although not at the
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 8: present moment, eventually are of service to the state. But
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 8: the intelligent leader ought to look to this, For the
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 8: case is the same with the man who speaks words
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 8: and the man who approves them who said that they
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 8: ought to kill or Estaes and thee by stoning. But
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 8: Tyindares was privily making up such sort of speeches for him,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: who wished you a death to speak. But another man
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 8: stood up and spoke in opposition to him, in form
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 8: indeed not made to catch the eye. But the man
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 8: endued with the qualities of a man rarely polluting the
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 8: city and the circle of the forum, one who farmed
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 8: his own land, which class of persons alone preserved the country,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 8: But prudent and wishing the tenor of his conduct to
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 8: be in unison with his words, uncorrupted, one that had
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 8: conformed to a blameless mode of living. He proposed to
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 8: crown Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, who was willing to
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 8: avenge his father by slaying a wicked and unholy woman,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 8: Who took this out of the power of men, And
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 8: would no one have been the cause of arming the
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 8: hand for war, nor undertaking an expedition leaving his home,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 8: if those who are left destroy what is intrusted to
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 8: their charge in the house, disgracing their husband's beds, and
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 8: to right minded men, at least he appeared to speak well,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 8: and none spoke besides, But thy brother advanced and said, O,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 8: inhabitants of the land of Inachus, avenging you no less
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 8: than my father, I slew my mother. For if the
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 8: murder of men shall become licensed to women, ye no
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 8: longer can escape dying, or ye must be slaves to
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 8: your wives. But ye do the contrary to what ye
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 8: ought to do. For now she that was false to
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 8: the bed of my father is dead. But if ye
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 8: do indeed slay me, the law has lost its force,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 8: and no man can escape dying, forasmuch as there will
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 8: be no lack of this audacity. But he persuaded not
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 8: to people, though appearing to speak well, but that a
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 8: villain who spoke among the multitude overcomes him. He that
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 8: ranked for the killing of thy brother and thee. But
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 8: scarcely did the wretched Orestes persuade them that he might
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 8: not die by stoning. But he promised that this day
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 8: he would quit his life by self slaughter, together with thee.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 8: But Pilardes is conducting him from the council, weeping. But
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 8: his friends accompany him, bewailing him, pitying him. But he
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 8: is coming, a said spectacle to thee, and a wretched sight,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 8: but prepared a sword on the news for thy neck,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 8: for thou must die. But thy nobleness of birth hath
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 8: profited thee nothing, nor the Pythian Phoebus, who sits on
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 8: the tripod, But hath destroyeth thee.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: Oh unhappy virgin. How art thou dumb, casting thy muffled
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: countenance toward the ground, as though about to run into
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: a strain of groans and lamentations.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: I begin the lament o land of Greece, digging my
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: white nail into my cheek, sad, bleeding woe, and dashing
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: my head, which the lovely Goddess of the mans beneath
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: the earth has to her share. And let the Cyclopean
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: land howl, applying the steel to their head cropped of hair,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: over the calamity of our house. This pity, this pity
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: proceeds for those who are about to die, who once
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: were the princes of Greece. For it is gone, it
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: is gone. The entire race of the children of Pelops
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: is perished, and the happiness which once resided in these
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: blest abodes, envy from heaven has now seized it, and
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: the hush decree of blood in the ste eight alas alas,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: a race of mortals that endure for a day full
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: of tears, full of troubles. Behold, how contrary to expectation
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: fate comes. But in the long lapse of time, each
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: indifferent man receives by turn his different sufferings. But the
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: whole race of mortals is unstable and uncertain. Oh, could
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: I go to that rock stretched from Olympus, in its
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: loftiness midst heaven and earth, by golden chains, that mass
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: of clay borne round with rapid revolutions, that in my
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: plaints I might cry out to my ancient father Tantalus,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: who begat the progenitors of my family, who saw calamities.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: What time in the pursuing of steeds, Peelops, in his
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: car drawn by four horses, perpetrated as he drove the
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: murder of Myrtalis, by casting him into the sea, hurling
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: him down to the surge of the ocean, as he
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: guided his car on the shore of the briny sea,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: by Garastus, foaming with its white billows. Whence the baleful
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: curse came on my house, Since by the agency of
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: Maya's son there appeared the pernicious, pernicious prodigy of the
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: golden fleeced lamb, a berth which took place among the
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: flocks of the warlike Atreus, on which both Discord drove
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: back the winged chariot of the Sun, directing it from
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: the path of Heaven leading to the west toward Aurora
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: borne on her single horse, and Jupiter drove back the
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: course of the seven moving pleads another way. And from
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: that period he sends deaths in succession to deaths and
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: the feast of Thiastes, so named from Thiastes and the
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: bed of the crete in Aeropi deceitful in a deceitful
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: marriage has come as a finishing stroke on me and
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: my father, to the miserable destruction of our family.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: But see thy brother is advancing, condemned by the vote
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: of death, Pillarest, the most faithful of all, a man
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: like a brother, supporting the enfeebled glimpse of Orestus, walking
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: by his side with a foot of tender sulsitude.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 12: Enter Orestes, and Piladies, alas me, for I bewail thee,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 12: my brother, seeing thee before the tomb and before the
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 12: pyre of thy departed shade, alas me again and again,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 12: how am I bereft of my senses, seeing with my
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 12: eyes the very last.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: Sight of thee.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 5: Wilt thou not, in silence, ceasing from womanish groans, make
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 5: up thy mind to what is decreed. These things, indeed
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 5: are lamentable. But yet we must bear our present fate.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: And how can I be silent? We wretched no longer
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: are permitted to view this.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 5: Light of the God. Do not thou kill me, I,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 5: the unhappy, died enough already under the hands of the argives.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 5: But pass over our present ills.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: O orestes, how wretched in thy youth and thy fate
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: and thy untimely death, than oughtst thou to live.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 5: When thou art no more, do not, by the gods
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 5: throw cowardice round me, bringing the remembrance of my woe,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 5: so as to cause tears.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: We shall die. It is not possible not to groan
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: our misfortunes, for the dear life is a cause of
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: pity to all mortals.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 5: This is the day appointed for us. But we must
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 5: either fit the suspended noose or wet the sword with
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 5: our hand.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: Do thou then kill me, my brother? Let none of
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: the argives kill me. Putting a contumely on the offspring
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: of Agamemnon.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 5: I have enough of thy mother's blood. But THEE I
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 5: will not slay, but die by thine own hand. In
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 5: whatever manner thou wilt, these.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: Things shall be. I will not be deserted by thy soul, Lord,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: but I wish to clasp my hands around thy neck.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 5: Thou enjoyest a vain gratification, if this be in enjoyment,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 5: to throw thy hands around those who are hard at
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 5: death's door.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: Oh thou most dear, O thou that hast the desirable
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: and most sweet name, and one soul with thy sister.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 5: Thou wilt melt me. And still I wish to answer
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 5: THEE in the endearment of encircling arms. For why am
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 5: I any longer ashamed? O bosom of my sister, O,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 5: dear object of my caresses? These embraces are allowed to
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 5: us miserable beings instead of children and the bridal bed Alas.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: How can the same sword, if this request be lawful,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: kill us, and one tomb rot of cedar receive us.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 5: This would be most sweet, But thou seest how destitute
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 5: we are in respect to being able to share our supultra.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: Did not Menelaeus speak in behalf of THEE taking a
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: decided part against thy death. The base man, the deserter
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: of my father.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 5: He showed it, not even in his countenance, but keeping
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 5: his hopes on the scepter. He was cautious how he
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: saved his friends. But let be he will die acting
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 5: in a manner nobly and most worthily of Agamemnon. And
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: I indeed will show my high descent to the city,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 5: striking home to my heart with the sword. But THEE,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 5: on the other hand, it behooveth to act in concert
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 5: with my bold attempts. But do thou, pildes, be the
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 5: empire of our death and well compose the bodies of
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 5: us when dead, and bury us together, bearing us to
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 5: our father's tomb, and farewell. But I am going to
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: the deed as thou seest hold.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 7: This one thing. Indeed, first I bring in charge against THEE.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 7: Dost thou think that I can wish to leave when
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 7: thou diest?
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 5: For how does it concern THEE to die with me?
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 7: Dost ask? But how does it to live without thy company?
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 5: Thou didst not slay my mother as I did, a
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 5: wretch with THEE?
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 7: I did at least I ought also to suffer these
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 7: things in common with THEE.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 5: Take thyself back to thy father. Do not die with me,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 5: For thou indeed hast a city, but I no longer have,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 5: and the mansion of thy father, and a great harbor
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 5: of wealth. But thou art frustrated in thy marriage with
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 5: this unhappy virgin, whom I betrothed to THEE, revering thy friendship. Nevertheless,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 5: do thou contracting other nuptials. Be a blessed father. But
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: the connection between me and THEE no longer subsists. But thou,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 5: o darling name of thy converse, farewell, be happy. For
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 5: this is not allowed me, but it is to THEE.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 5: For we the dead, are deprived of happy.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 7: Surely thou art wide astray from my purposes. Nor may
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 7: the fruitful plane receive my blood, nor the bright air.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: If ever I betraying THEE, having freed myself, forsake THEE.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 7: For I committed the slaughter with THEE, I will not
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 7: deny it. And I planned all things for which now
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 7: thou sufferest vengeance die. Then I must with THEE and
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 7: her together, For her whose marriage I have courted I
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 7: consider as my wife. For what good excuse ever shall
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 7: I give going to the Delphian land to the citadel
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 7: of the Phocians. I who was present with you, your
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 7: friend before, indeed you were unfortunate, But now when you
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 7: are unfortunate, am no longer thy friend. It is not possible.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 7: But these things are my care also. But since we
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 7: are about to die, why let us come to a
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 7: common conference? How Menelaus may be involved in our calamity?
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 5: Oh, my dearest men, for what I see this and die?
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 7: Be persuaded? Then, but defer the slaughtering sword.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 5: I will defer if anyhow I can avenge myself on
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 5: my enemy.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 7: Be silent then, for I have but small confidence in women.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 5: Do not at all fear these, for they are friends
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 5: that are present.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 7: Let us kill Helen, which will cause great grief to Menelaus. Oh,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 7: for the will is here, if it could be done
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 7: with glory stabbing her. But she is lurking in thy house.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 5: Yes indeed, and is putting her seal on all my effects.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 7: But she shall seal no more, having Pluto for her bridegroom.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 5: And how can this be? For she has a train
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 5: of Barbarian attendance.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 7: Whom for I would be afraid of no Phrygian.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 5: Such men as should preside over mirrors and scents.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 7: For has she brought hither her trojan fineries?
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 14: Oh?
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 5: Yes, so that Greece is but a cottage for her.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 7: A race of slaves is a mere nothing against the
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 7: race that will not be slaves.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 5: In good truth, this, if I could achieve, I shrink
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 5: not from two deaths.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 7: But neither do I. Indeed, if I could revenge thee,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 7: at least.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 5: Disclose thy purpose and go through it as thou sayest, We.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 7: Will enter then the house as men about to die.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: Thus far I comprehend, but the rest I do not comprehend.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 7: We will make our lamentation to her of the things
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 7: we suffer.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 5: So that she shall weep though joyed within her heart.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 7: And the same things will be for us to do afterward,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 7: which she does.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 5: Then, then how shall we finish the contest?
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 7: We will wear our swords concealed neath our robes.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 5: But what slaughter can there be before her attendants?
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 7: We will bolt them out, scattered in different parts of
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 7: the house.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 5: And him that is not silent we must kill.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 7: Then the circumstances of the moment will point out what
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 7: steps to.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 5: Take to kill Helen. I understand the sign.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 7: Thou seest, but hear on what honorable principles I meditate it.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 7: For if we draw our sword on a more modest woman,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 7: the murder will blot our names with infamy. But in
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 7: the present instance she will suffer vengeance for the whole
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 7: of Greece, whose fathers she slew and made the brides
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 7: bereaved of their spouses. There shall be a shout, and
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 7: they will kindle up fire to the gods, praying for
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 7: many blessings to fall to thee and me. Inasmuch as
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 7: we shed the blood of a wicked woman, but thou
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 7: shalt not be called the mattressie when thou hast slain her.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 7: But dropping this name, thou shalt arrive at better things,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 7: being styled the slayer of the Havoc dealing helen. It
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 7: never never were right that men allow us should be prosperous,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 7: and that thy father and thou and thy sister should die,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 7: and thy mother this I forbear, for it is not
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 7: decorous to mention, and that he should seize thy house
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 7: having recovered his bride by the means of Agamemnon's valor.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 7: For may I live no longer if I draw not
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 7: my black sword upon her. But if then we do
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 7: not compass the murder of Helen, having fired the palace,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 7: we will die, for we shall have glory succeeding in
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 7: one of these two things, nobly dying or nobly rescued.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 4: The daughter of Tadaris is an object of debtors station
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: to all women, being one that has given rise to
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 4: scandal against a.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 5: Sex alas there is no better thing than a real friend,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 5: not riches, not kingdoms. But the popular applause becomes a
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 5: thing of no account to receive in exchange for a
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 5: generous friend. For thou contrivest the destruction that befell a justus,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 5: and was close to me in my dangers. But now
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 5: again thou givest me to revenge me on mine enemies,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 5: and art not out of the way. But I will
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 5: leave off praising thee, since there is some burden even
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 5: in this to be praised to excess. But I altogether,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 5: in state of death, wish to do something to my
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 5: foes and die, that I may in turn destroy those
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 5: who betrayed me, and those may Moan who also made
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 5: me unhappy. I am the son of Agamemnon, who ruled
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 5: over Greece by general consent no tyrant, But yet he
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 5: had the power, as it were, of a god whom
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 5: I will not disgrace, suffering a slavish death, but breathe
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 5: out my soul and freedom. But on Menelaus will I
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 5: revenge me? For if we could gain this one thing,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 5: we should be prosperous. If from any chance, safety should
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 5: come unhoped for on the slayers, then not the slain.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 5: This I hope for, for what I wish is sweet,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 5: to delight the mind without fear of cost. Though with
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 5: but fleeting words uttered through the mouth.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: I, O, brother, think that this very thing brings safety
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: to thee and thy friend. And in the third place, to.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 5: Me, thou meanest the providence of the gods. But where
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 5: is this? For I know that there is understanding in
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 5: thy mind.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: Hear me then, and thou too, give thy attention.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 5: Speak, since the existing prospect of good affords some pleasure.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: Art thou acquainted with the daughter of Helen? Thou knowest
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: her of whom I ask.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 5: I know her, Hermione, whom my mother brought up.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: She is gone to Clytemnestra's tomb.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 5: For what purpose? What hope dost thou suggest to.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: Poor libations on the tomb in behalf of her mother.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 5: And what is this thou hast told me of that
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 5: regards our safety.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: Seize her as a pledge as she is coming back.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 5: What remedy for the three friends is this?
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  Speaker 2: Thou sayest, when Helen is dead, if Menelaus does any
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: harm to Thee, or Pilides or me for this firm
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: of friendship, is all one say that thou wilt kill Hermione.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: But thou oughtest to draw thy sword and hold it
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: to the neck of the Virgin. And if indeed Menelaeus
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: save thee anxious that the Virgin may not die when
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: he sees Helen's course weltering in blood, give back the
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: Virgin for her father to enjoy. But should he not,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: governing his angry temper, slay thee, do thou also plunge
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: the sword into the Virgin's neck? And I think that he,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: though at first he come to us very big, will
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: after a season soften his heart, for neither is he
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: brave nor valiant. This is the fortress of our safety
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: that I have. My arguments on the subject have been
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: spoken o.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 5: Thou, that hast indeed the mind of a man, but
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 5: a form among women beautiful. To what a degree art
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 5: thou more worthy of life than death? Pildes, Wilt thou
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 5: miserably be disappointed of such a woman, or dwelling with
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 5: her obtain this happy marriage?
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 7: For would it could be so, and she could come
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 7: to the city of the Phocians, meeting with her desserts
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 7: in splendid nuptials.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 5: But when will hermione come to the house? Since for
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 5: the rest, thou sayest most admirably, if we could succeed
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 5: in taking the wealth of the impious father.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: Even now I guess that she must be near the house.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: For with this supposition the space itself of the time coincides.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 5: It is well do thou, therefore, my sister Electra, waiting
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 5: before the house, meet the arrival of the virgin, and
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 5: watch lest any one, either some ally or the brother
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 5: of my father, should be beforehand with us coming to
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 5: the palace, and make some noise toward the house, either
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 5: knocking at the doors or sending thy voice within. But
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 5: let us o pilades, for thou undertakest this labor, with
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 5: me entering in arm our hands with a sword, to
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 5: one last attempt o my father, that inhabitest the realms
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 5: of gloomy night. Orestes thy son, invokes THEE to come
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 5: a succor to thy supplicants, For on thy account I wretched,
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 5: suffer unjustly, and am betrayed by thy brother, myself having
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 5: acted justly, whose wife I wish to take and destroy.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 5: But be thou our accomplice in this affair.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: O Father, Come, then, if beneath the earth thou hearest
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: thy children, calling who die.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 7: For THEE, O Thou relation of my father, give ear
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 7: O Agamemnon to my prayers, also preserve thy children. I
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 7: slew my mother, but I directed the sword.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: But I at least incited you and freed you from.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 5: Delay succoring THEE, my father.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: Neither did I forsake THEE.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 7: Wilt thou not, therefore, hearing these things that are brought
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 7: against THEE, defend thy children.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 5: I pour libations on THEE with my tears.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: And I with lamentations.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 7: Cease and let us haste forth to the work. For
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 7: if prayers penetrate under the earth, he hears. But Oh Jove,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 7: our ancestor, and thou revered deity of justice, grant us
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 7: to succeed him and myself and this virgin. For over
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 7: us three friends, one hazard, one cause impens either for
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 7: all to live or all to die.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: Oh dear, Mycenian virgins, who have the first place at
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: the Pelaskian seat of the argives, what.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 4: Voice art thou uttering, my respected mistress, For this appellation
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 4: awaits thee in the city of the daunights.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: Arrange yourselves, some of you in this beaten way and
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: some there in that other path, to guard the house.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 4: But in want account dost thou command this? Tell me, my.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: Friend, fear possesses me. Lest any one being in the
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: palace on account of this murderous deed should contrive evils
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: on evils.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: Go let us hasten. I indeed will God this path
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 4: that tends toward whether the sun flings his first race.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 11: And I indeed this which leads towards the west.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: Now turn the glances of your eyes around in every
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: position now here now there, Then take some other view.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 3: We are as thou commandest.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: Now roll your eyelids over your pupils, glance them every
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: way through your ringlets.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 4: Is this any one hair approaching in the path?
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 11: Who is this rustic that's standing about thy palace?
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: We are undone. Then, my friends, he will immediately show
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: to the enemy the lurking beasts of prey armed with
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: their swords.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 4: Be not afraid. The path is clear, which thou thinkest not.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: But what does all with you remain secure? Give me
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: some good report whether the space before the hall be empty.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 4: All hair at least as well? But look to thy province,
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 4: for no one of the dnates is approaching towards us.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 11: Thy report agrees with mine, for neither is there disturbance here.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: Come now, I will listen at the door. Why do
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: ye delay, ye that are within to sacrifice the victim?
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: Now that ye are in quiet, they hear not alas
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: me wretched and misery are the swords then, struck dumb
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: at her beauty? Perhaps some argive in arms, rushing in
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: with the foot of succor will approach the palace. Now
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: watch more carefully. It is no contest that admits delay.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: But turn your eyes some this way and some that.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 4: I turn each different way, looking about on all sides.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, Pelaski and argos, I am miserably slain.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: Herj ye, the men are employing their head in the murder.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: It is the shriek of Helen as I may conjecture.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 4: O, eternal might of Jovie, come to assist my friends
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 4: in every way.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 3: Men, aless I die, But thou art at hand, and
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 3: dost not help me kill?
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: Strike slay, plunging with your hands the two double edged
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: swords into the deserter of her father, the deserter of
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: her husband, who destroyed numbers of the Grecians perishing by
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: the spear at the river. Whence tears fell into conjunction
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: with tears fell on account of the iron weapons around
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: the whirlpools of Scamander.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: Be still, be still, I heard the sound of some
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 4: one coming along the path round the palace. O, most
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 4: dear women, in the midst of the slaughter, behold Hermione
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 4: is present.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: Let us cease from our clamor, for she comes about
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: to fall into the meshes of our toils. A goodly
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: pray will she be if she be taken again to
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: your stations with a calm countenance and with a color
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: that shall not give evidence of what has been done.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: I too, will preserve a pensive cast of countenance, as
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: though perfectly unacquainted with what has happened. And to Hermione,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: Oh virgin art thou come from crowning Clytemnestra's tomb and
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: pouring lebations to her names.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 9: I am come having obtained her good services. But some
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 9: terror has come upon me on account of the noise
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 9: in the palace, which I hear, being a far distance
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 9: off the house.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: But why there have happened to us? Things worthy of groans?
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 9: Speak good words? But what news dost thou tell me?
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: It has been decreed by this land that orestes and
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: I die.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 9: No, I hope not so you, who are my relations?
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: It is fixed, but we stand under the yoke of necessity?
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 9: Was the noise then in the house on this account.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: For falling down a suppliant at the knees of Helen,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: He cries.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 9: Out, who, for I know no more, except thou tellest.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 15: Me the wretched arrestes that he may not die and
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 15: in behalf of me for a just reason. Then the
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 15: house lamented, For on what other account should one rather
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 15: cry out? But come and join in supplication with thy friends,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 15: falling down before thy mother the supremely blessed that Menelaus
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 15: will not see us perish. But o thou that receivest
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 15: thy education at the hands of my mother, pity us
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 15: and alleviate our sufferings. Come hither to the trial, but
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 15: I will lead the way, for thou alone hast the
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 15: ends of our preservation.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 9: Beholds. I direct my footstep toward the house. Be preserved
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 9: as far as lies in me. O, Ye.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: In the house, my dear warriors, will ye not take
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: your prey?
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 12: Ask me who are these I see? Hold her?
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: Hold her, and pointing a sword to her neck, be silent,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: that Menelaus may know that, having found men not Phrygian cowards,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: he has treated them in a manner he should treat cowards.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: What ho? What ho?
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: My friends, make a noise, a noise and a shout
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: before the palace, that the murder that is perpetrated spread
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: not a dread alarm among the argives, so that they
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: run to assist to the king's palace before I plainly
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: see the slaughtered Helen lying weltering in her blood within
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: the house, or else we hear the report from some
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: of her attendants. For part of the havoc I know,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: and part not accurately.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 4: With justice came the vengeance of the gods on Helen,
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 4: For she filled the whole of Greece with tears on
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 4: account of the ruthless, ruthless dam Paris, who brought the
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 4: Grecian state to Ilium. But be silent for the bolts
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 4: of the royal mansionary sound for some one of the
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 4: farrigans comes forth, from whom we shall hear the affairs
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 4: within the house. In what state they are?
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: Enter a Phrygian.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 11: I've escaped from death by the argive's sword in these
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 11: barbaric slippers, climbing over the cedar beams of the bed
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 11: and the dark triglyphs, by the flight of a barbarian.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 11: Thou art gone, thou art gone, my country, my country,
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 11: alas me? Whither can I escape o strangers flying through
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 11: the hoary air or the sea which the ocean, with
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 11: head in shape like a bull's rolling with his arms,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 11: encircles the earth.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 4: But what is the matter, I attendant of Helen, thou ada.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 11: Oh alien alien, alas me, oh thou fertile Phrygian city,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 11: thou sacred mount Ida? How do I lament for thee destroyed,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 11: sad sad strain for my barbaric voice, on account of
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 11: that form of the hapless, hapless Helen born from a bird,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 11: the offspring of the beauteous leda in the shape of
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 11: a swan, the fiend of the splendid Appollinian Pergamus Alas lamentations, lamentations,
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 11: wretched Dardinia, warlike school of Ganymede, the companion of Jove.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 4: Relate to you as clearly each circumstance that happened in
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 4: the house, For I do not understand your former account,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 4: but merely conjecture.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 11: Aileen on, aileen on the barbarians begin the song of
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 11: the language of Asia alas Alas. When the blood of
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 11: kings has been poured on the earth by the ruthless
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 11: swords of death, there came to the palace that I
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 11: may relate each circumstance. Two Grecians lions, one of the
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 11: leader of the Grecian host, was said to be the father,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 11: the other the son of Strophius, a man of dark design.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 11: Such was Ulysses, secretly treacherous, but faithful to his friends,
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 11: bold in battle, skilled in war, cruel as the dragon.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 11: May he perish for his deep concealed design, the worker
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 11: of evil. But they, having advanced within her chamber, whom
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 11: the archer Paris had as his wife, their eyes bathed
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 11: with tears. They sat down in humble mean, one on
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 11: each side of her, on the right and on the left,
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 11: armed with swords, and around her knees. Did they both
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 11: fling their suppliant hands around the knees of Helen. Did
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 11: they spring them? But the Phrygian attendant sprung up and
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 11: fled in amazement, and one called out to another in terror,
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 11: see lest there be treachery. To some, indeed there appeared
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 11: no danger. But to others the dragon, stained with his
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 11: mother's blood appeared bent to enfold in his closest toils
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 11: the daughter of Tyndarus.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 4: But where art thou then, or hadst thou long before,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 4: fled through fair.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 11: After the Phrygian fashion, I chanced, with the close circle
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 11: of feathers to be fanning the gale that sported in
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 11: the ringlets of Helen before her cheek after the barbaric fashion.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 11: But she was winding with her fingers of flax round
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 11: the distaff. But what she had spun she let fall
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 11: on the ground. Desirous of making from the Phrygian spoils
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 11: a robe of purple as an ornament for the tomb,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 11: a gift to Cltemnestra. But Orestes entreated the spartan girl, O,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 11: daughter of Jove. Here place thy footstep on the ground,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 11: rising from thy seat, come to the place of our
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 11: ancestor Pilops, the ancient altar, that thou mayest hear my words,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 11: And he leads her. But she followed, not dreaming of
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 11: what was about to happen. But his accomplice, the wicked potion,
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 11: attended to the other points. Will he not depart from
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 11: out of the way? But are the Phrygians always of vile?
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 11: And he bolted us out, scattered in different parts of
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 11: the house, some in the stables of the horses, and
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 11: some in the outhouses, and some here and there, dispersing
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 11: them some one way, some another, afar from their mistress.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 4: What calamity took place after this, Oh.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 11: Powerful, powerful idea, Mother Alas alas the murderous sufferings and
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 11: the lawless evils which I saw, I saw in the
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 11: royal palace from beneath their purple robes, concealed, having their
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 11: drawn swords in their hands, they turned each his eye
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 11: on either side lest anyone might chance to be present.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 11: But like mountain boers, standing over the lady, they say,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 11: thou shalt die, aye, thou shalt die. Thy vile husband
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 11: kills thee, having given up the offspring of his brother
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 11: to die at Argos. But she shrieked out ah me,
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 11: ah me, and throwing her white arm on her breast,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 11: inflicted on her head miserable blows, and her feet turned
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 11: to flight. She stepped. She stepped with her golden sandals,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 11: but Oresties, thrusting his fingers into her hair, outstripping her flight,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 11: bending back her neck over his left shoulder, was about
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 11: to plunge the black sword into her throat.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 4: Well then were the Furagans, who dwell under the same roof,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 4: to assist her.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 11: With a clamor. Having burst by means of bars, the
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 11: doors and cells where we were waiting, we run to
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 11: her assistance, each to different parts of the house, one
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 11: bringing stones, another spears, another having a long handled sword
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 11: in his hand. The Pylades came against us impetuous, like
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 11: as in the Phrygian hector Ajax in his triple crested helmet,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 11: whom I saw I saw at the gates of Priam.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 11: But we clashed together the points of our swords. Then, indeed,
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 11: then did the Phrygians give clear proof of how inferior
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 11: we were in the force of Mars to the spear
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 11: of Greece, one indeed turning away fugitive, but another wounded,
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 11: and another deprecating the death that threatened him. But under
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 11: favor of darkness we fled, and the corpses fell, but
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 11: some staggered and suddenly prostrate. But the wretched Hermione came
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 11: to the house at the time when her murdered mother
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 11: fell to the ground, that unhappy woman that gave her birth,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 11: and running upon her as bacchanales without their thersis, as
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 11: a hefron the mountains, they bore her away in their hands,
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 11: and again eagerly rushed upon the daughter of Jove to
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 11: slay her. But she vanished altogether from the chamber through
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 11: the palace O Jupiter and o Earth and light and darkness,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 11: or by her enchantments, or by the art of magic,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 11: or by stealth of the gods. But of what followed
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 11: I know no farther, for I sped in stealth my
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 11: foot from the palace. But Menelaus, having endured many, many
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 11: severe toils, has received back from Troy the violated rites
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 11: of Helen to no purpose.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 4: And see something strange succeed to these strange things for
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 4: I see Orestes with the saw drawn, walking before the
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 4: palace with agitated step enter Orestes.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 5: Where is he that has fled from my sword out
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 5: of the palace?
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 11: I supplicate thee O King falling prostrate before thee after
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 11: the barbaric fashion.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 5: The case before is is not Nilium, but the argive land.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 11: In every region, to live is sweeter than to die,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 11: in the opinion of the wise.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 5: Didst thou not raise a cry from Menelaus to come
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 5: with succor?
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 11: I am indeed present on purpose to assist thee for
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 11: thou art more worthy?
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 5: Perished then the daughter of Tendarus justly.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 11: Most justly, even had she three lives for vengeance.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 5: With thy tongue, dost thou flatter, not having these sentiments within?
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 5: For ought?
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 11: She not she who utterly destroyed Greece as well as
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 11: the Phrygians themselves.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 5: Swear I kill thee elves that thou art not speaking
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 5: to curry favor with me by.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 11: My life, I have sworn, which I should wish to
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  Speaker 11: hold a sacred oath.
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  Speaker 5: Was the steel thus dreadful to all the Phrygians at Troy?
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  Speaker 11: Also remove thy sword, for being so near me it
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  Speaker 11: gleams horrid slaughter.
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  Speaker 5: Art thou afraid lest thou shouldst become a rock, as
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  Speaker 5: though looking on the gorgon, lest I.
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  Speaker 11: Should become a corpse. But I know not of the
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  Speaker 11: Gorgon's head.
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  Speaker 5: Slave, as thou art, dost thou fear death, which will
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  Speaker 5: rid thee from thy woes.
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  Speaker 11: Everyone, although a man be a slave, rejoices to behold
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  Speaker 11: the light.
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  Speaker 5: Thou sayest well, thy understanding saves thee. But go into
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  Speaker 5: the house. Thou shalt not kill me, then thou art pardoned.
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  Speaker 11: This is good word thou hast spoken.
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  Speaker 5: Yet we may change our measures.
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  Speaker 11: But this thou sayest not well.
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  Speaker 5: Thou art a fool if thou thinkest I could endure
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  Speaker 5: to defile me by smiting thy neck. For neither art
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  Speaker 5: thou a woman, nor ughtest thou to be ranked among men,
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  Speaker 5: but that thou mightest not raise a clamor came I
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  Speaker 5: forth out of the house. For Augus, when it has
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  Speaker 5: heard a noise, is soon roused. But we have no
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  Speaker 5: dread in meeting manelaias as far as swords go. But
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  Speaker 5: let him come exulting with his golden ringlets flowing over
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  Speaker 5: his shoulders. For if he collects the argives and brings
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  Speaker 5: them against the palace, seeking revenge for the death of Helen,
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  Speaker 5: and is not willing to let me be in safety
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  Speaker 5: and my sister, and pilades my accomplice in this affair.
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  Speaker 5: He shall see two corpses, both a virgin and his wife.
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  Speaker 4: Alas alas oh fate. The house of atred Air again
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  Speaker 4: falls into another another fearful struggle.
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  Speaker 3: What shall we do?
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  Speaker 4: Shall we carry these tidings to the city, or shall
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  Speaker 4: we keep in silence?
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  Speaker 11: This is the safer plan, my friends.
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  Speaker 4: Behold before the house, Behold the smoke leaping aloft in
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  Speaker 4: the air pertends something.
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  Speaker 11: They are lighting the torches as about to burn down
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  Speaker 11: the mansion of Tantalus. Nor do they forbear from murder.
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  Speaker 4: The God rules the events that happen to mortals, whichsoever
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  Speaker 4: way he wills. But some vast power, by the instigation
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  Speaker 4: of the furies, has struck, has struck these palaces to
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  Speaker 4: the shedding of blood, on account of the fall of
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  Speaker 4: Matelus from the chariot. But lo I see Menelaus also
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  Speaker 4: her approaching the house with a quick step, having by
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  Speaker 4: some means or other perceived the calamity which now is present.
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  Speaker 4: Will he not anticipate him by closing the gate with bolt? O, ye,
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  Speaker 4: children of Atreus, who are in the palace, a man
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  Speaker 4: in prosperities, a terrible thing to those in adversity, as
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  Speaker 4: now them art in misery orestes.
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  Speaker 1: And to Menilaeus above and Hermione below.
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  Speaker 6: I am present, having heard the horrid and atrocious deeds
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  Speaker 6: of the two lions. For I call them not men.
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  Speaker 6: For I have now heard of my wife, that she
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  Speaker 6: died not but vanished away. This that I heard was
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  Speaker 6: empty report, which one deceived by fright related. But these
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  Speaker 6: are the artifices of the mattracide and much derision. Open
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  Speaker 6: someone the door, my attendants, I command to burst open
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  Speaker 6: these gates here, that my child, at least we may
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  Speaker 6: deliver from the hand of these blood polluted men, and
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  Speaker 6: may receive my unhappy, my miserable lady, with whom those
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  Speaker 6: murderers of my wife must die by my hand.
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  Speaker 5: Wat hole there, touch not these gates with thine hands.
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  Speaker 5: To Menilaus, I speak that thou tower'st in thy boldness,
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  Speaker 5: or with this pinnacle, will I crush thy head? Having
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  Speaker 5: rented down the ancient battlement, the labor of the builders
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  Speaker 5: but the gates are made fast with bolts, which will
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  Speaker 5: hinder THEE from thy purpose of giving aid, so that
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  Speaker 5: thou canst not pass within the palace.
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  Speaker 9: Ah, what is this?
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  Speaker 6: I see the blaze of torches, and these stationed on
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  Speaker 6: the battlements on the height of the palace, and the
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  Speaker 6: sword placed over the neck of my daughter to guard her.
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  Speaker 5: Whether is it thy will to question or to hear me?
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  Speaker 6: I wish neither, But it is necessary, as it seems
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  Speaker 6: to hear THEE.
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  Speaker 5: I am about to slay thy daughter.
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  Speaker 6: If thou wished to know having slain Helen, dost thou
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  Speaker 6: perpetrate murder on murder for what I.
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  Speaker 5: Had gained my purpose, not being deluded as I was
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  Speaker 5: by the gods.
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  Speaker 6: Thou hast slain her and deniest it, and speakest these
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  Speaker 6: things to insult me.
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  Speaker 5: It is a denial that gives me pain, for would that.
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  Speaker 6: Thou had done what deed. For thou call'st alarm, I.
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  Speaker 5: Had hurled hell the fury of Greece.
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  Speaker 6: Give back the body of my wife, that I may
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  Speaker 6: bury her in a tomb.
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  Speaker 5: Ask her of the gods, But I will slay thy daughter.
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  Speaker 6: The mattricide contrives murder on murder.
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  Speaker 5: The avenger of my father, whom thou gavest up.
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  Speaker 6: To die, was not the blood of thy mother formerly
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  Speaker 6: shed sufficient for thee.
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  Speaker 5: I should not be weary of slaying wicked women, were
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  Speaker 5: I just slay them forever?
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  Speaker 6: Art Thou also pilades a partaker in this murder.
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  Speaker 5: By his silence, he assents, But if I speak, it
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  Speaker 5: will be sufficient, but.
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  Speaker 6: Not with impunity. Unless indeed thou fliest on wings.
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  Speaker 5: We will not fly, but will set fire to the palace.
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  Speaker 6: What wilt thou destroy thy father's mansion?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that thou mayst not possess it? Will I, having
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  Speaker 5: stabbed his virgin here over the flames.
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  Speaker 6: Slay her? Since having slain, thou shalt at lea least
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  Speaker 6: give me satisfaction for these deeds. It will be so then,
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  Speaker 6: alas on no account do this be.
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  Speaker 5: Silent, then, but bear to suffer evil justly?
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  Speaker 6: What is it just for thee to live?
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: And a rule over the land? What land here in
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 5: palasgian Agos?
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  Speaker 6: Well, wouldst thou touch the sacred lavers and pray?
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  Speaker 5: Why not?
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  Speaker 6: And wouldst slaughter the victim before the battle?
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  Speaker 5: And thou wouldst most righteously?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, For I am pure as to my hands, but
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 6: not thy heart, who would speak to thee.
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  Speaker 5: Whoever loves his father and whoever revers his mother is
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  Speaker 5: happy not to.
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  Speaker 6: Thou, at least for wicked women. Please me not take
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  Speaker 6: away the sword from my daughter.
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  Speaker 5: Thou art false and thy expectations.
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  Speaker 6: But wilt thou kill my daughter?
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  Speaker 5: Thou art no longer false?
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  Speaker 6: Alas me. Watch all I do, go to.
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  Speaker 5: The Argives and persuade them with what persuasion beseech the
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  Speaker 5: city that we may not die.
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  Speaker 6: Otherwise ye will slee my daughter.
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  Speaker 5: The thing is so oh wretched, Helen, and am I
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  Speaker 5: not wretched?
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  Speaker 6: I brought thee hither from the Trojans to be a victim,
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  Speaker 6: for would this were so, having endured ten thousand.
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  Speaker 5: Toils, except on my account.
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  Speaker 6: I have met with dreadful treatment.
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  Speaker 5: For then, when thou oughtest, thou wert of no assistance.
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  Speaker 5: Thou hast me Thou at least hast caught thyself. But
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  Speaker 5: ho there set fire the palace elector from beneath, and
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 5: thou pildese, the most true of my friends, light up
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  Speaker 5: these battlements of the walls.
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  Speaker 6: Oh land of the Danae, and inhabitants of war like Argos,
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  Speaker 6: will ye not there come in arms in my succor,
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  Speaker 6: for this man here, having perpetrated the shocking murder of
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  Speaker 6: his mother, brings destruction on your whole city.
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  Speaker 10: That he may live Enterpala Menelaeus, cease from thy irritated
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  Speaker 10: state of mind. I Phoebus, the son of Latona, in
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  Speaker 10: thy presence, am addressing thee Thou too arrestes, who standest
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  Speaker 10: over that damsel, with thy sword drawn, that thou mayest
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  Speaker 10: know what commands I bring with me Helen. Indeed, whom
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  Speaker 10: thou minded to destroy, working Menelaus to anger, didst fail
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  Speaker 10: of thy purpose. She is here, whom ye see, rapped
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  Speaker 10: in the bosom of the sky, preserved and not slain
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  Speaker 10: by thy hands. Her I preserved and snatched from thy sword,
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  Speaker 10: commanded by my father Jove. For being the daughter of Jove.
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  Speaker 10: It is right that she should live immortal, and she
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  Speaker 10: shall have her seat. I cast her and pollocks in
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  Speaker 10: the bosom of the sky, the guardian of mariners. But
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  Speaker 10: take to thyself another bride and lead her home. Since
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  Speaker 10: for the beauty of this woman the gods brought together
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  Speaker 10: the Greeks and Trojans and cause deaths that they might
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  Speaker 10: draw from off the earth the pride of mortals, who
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  Speaker 10: had become an infinite multitude. Thus is it with regard
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  Speaker 10: to Helen. But Thee, on the other hand, Orestes. It behooveth,
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  Speaker 10: having passed beyond the boundaries of this land, to inhabit
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  Speaker 10: the Parhasian plain during the revolution of a year, and
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  Speaker 10: it shall be called by a dame after thy flight,
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  Speaker 10: so that the Azanis and Arcadians shall call it Orestium.
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  Speaker 10: And thence, having departed to the city of the Athenians,
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  Speaker 10: undergo the charge of shedding thy mother's blood laid by
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  Speaker 10: the three furies. But the gods, the arbiters of the cause,
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  Speaker 10: shall pass on THEE most sacredly their decree on the
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  Speaker 10: hail of Mars, in which it behooveth Thee to be victorious.
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  Speaker 10: But Hermione, to whose neck thou art holding the sword.
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  Speaker 10: It is destined for Thee Orestes to wed. But Neptolemus,
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  Speaker 10: who thinks to marry her, shall never marry her, for
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 10: it is fated to him to die by the Delphic sword,
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  Speaker 10: as he is demanding of me satisfaction for his father Achilles.
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  Speaker 10: But to Pilades, give thy sister's hand, as thou didst
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  Speaker 10: formerly agree, But a happy life now coming on awaits him.
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  Speaker 10: But O Menelaeus, suffer Orestes to reign over Argos, but
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  Speaker 10: depart and rule over the spartan land, having it as
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 10: thy wife's dowry. Who exposing THEE to numberless evils, always
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 10: was bringing THEE to this. But what regards the city,
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  Speaker 10: I will make all right for him, I who compelled
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  Speaker 10: him to slay.
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  Speaker 5: His mother, O Loxy. And prophet Thou wert not then
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  Speaker 5: a false prophet in thine oracles, but a true one.
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  Speaker 5: And yet a fear comes upon me that, having heard
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 5: one of the furies, I might think that I have
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  Speaker 5: been hearing thy voice. But it is well fulfilled, and
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 5: I will obey thy words. Behold, I let go Hermione
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  Speaker 5: from slaughter, and approve her alliance whenever her father shall give.
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  Speaker 6: Her, Oh Helen, daughter of jove Hal. But I bless
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  Speaker 6: thee inhabiting the happy mansions of the gods. But to
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 6: thee Orestes do I betroth my daughter at Phoebus's commands.
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  Speaker 6: But illustrious thyself, marrying from an illustrious family, Be happy,
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  Speaker 6: both thou and I, who give.
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  Speaker 10: Her now depart. Each of you whither we have appointed
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  Speaker 10: and dissolve your quarrels.
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  Speaker 6: It is our duty to obey.
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  Speaker 5: I too, entertain the same sentiments, and I receive with
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 5: friendship thee In thy sufferings, O Menelaus, and thy oracles,
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  Speaker 5: O Apollo, go.
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  Speaker 10: No each his own way, honoring the most excellent Goddess Peace.
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  Speaker 10: But I will convey Helen to the mansions of Jove,
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  Speaker 10: passing through the pole of the shining Stars, where sitting
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  Speaker 10: by Juno and Hercules hebe a goddess. She shall ever
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 10: be honored by mortals with libations, in conjunction with the
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  Speaker 10: tindarity the sons of Jove presiding over the sea to
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 10: the benefit of mariners.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, greatly glorious victory. Mayest thou uphold my life and
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  Speaker 4: cease not from crowning me.
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  Speaker 1: End of Part two, end of Orestes by Euripides, translated
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  Speaker 1: by Theodore Buckley,