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Ah! ah! you goddesses swiftly careering on your wings, whose lot it is to hold a revel, not with Bacchic rites,
in tears and groans; you black-skinned avenging spirits, that dart along the spacious air, exacting a penalty for blood, a penalty for murder, I beg you, I beg you!
320
Allow the son of Agamemnon to forget his wild whirling frenzy.
325
Alas for the toils which you, poor wretch, strove after to your ruin, when you heard the voice from the tripod, proclaimed by Phoebus,
at his sanctuary, where the hollows are called the navel of the earth.
330
Ah! ah! you goddesses swiftly careering on your wings, whose lot it is to hold a revel, not with Bacchic rites,
in tears and groans; you black-skinned avenging spirits, that dart along the spacious air, exacting a penalty for blood, a penalty for murder, I beg you, I beg you!
320
Allow the son of Agamemnon to forget his wild whirling frenzy.
325
Alas for the toils which you, poor wretch, strove after to your ruin, when you heard the voice from the tripod, proclaimed by Phoebus,
at his sanctuary, where the hollows are called the navel of the earth.
330
Orestes. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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