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Orestes had avenged his father by slaying his mother Klytemnestra and Aegisthus her paramour, as is told in the Tragedy called "Electra," he was straightway haunted by the Erinnyes, the avengers of parricide, and by them made mad; and in the torment thereof he continued six days, till he was brought to death's door.

And herein is told how his sister Electra ministered to him, and how by the Argive people they were condemned to death, while their own kin stood far from their help, and how they strove against their doom.