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Repeat the lines again.

"Guide of the Dead, warding a father's way, "

Orestes speaks those words, I take it, standing

On his dead father's tomb?

I don't deny it.

Then what's the father's way that Hermes wards?

Is it the way Orestes' father went,

To darkness by a woman's dark intent?

No, no! He calls on Eriounian Hermes,

Guide of the Dead, and adds a word to say

That office is derived from Hermes' father.

That's worse than I supposed! For if your Hermes

Derives his care of dead men from his father,

Why, resurrectioning's the family trade!

Dionysus, dull of fragrance is thy wine!

Well, say the next; and (to ) you look out for slips.