Clytaemestra
Upon this divine deliverance have you rightly touched. As for me, however, I am willing to make a sworn compact with the Fiend of the house of Pleisthenes
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that I will be content with what is done, hard to endure though it is. Henceforth he shall leave this house and bring tribulation upon some other race by murder of kin. A small part of the wealth is fully enough for me, if I may but rid these halls
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of the frenzy of mutual murder.
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Agamemnon. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1926.
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