Orestes
Ah, my father, if only beneath
Ilium
’s walls you had been slain, slashed by some Lycian spearman! Then you would have left a good name for your children in their halls,
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and in their maturity you would have made their lives admired by men. And in a land beyond the sea you would have found a tomb heaped high with earth, no heavy burden for your house to bear—
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Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1926.
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