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That I helped thee slay thy mother, this he names an impious thing.

Woe is me! the anguish of mine anguish unto thee must cling!

I am not a Menelaus: these afflictions must I bear.

Fear'st thou not lest Argos doom thee with my deed my death to share?

I belong not unto them to punish, but to Phocis-land.

Fearful is the people's rage, when evil men its course command.

Nay, but when they take them honest chiefs, they counsel honest rede.

Come, let thou and I commune—

As touching what imperious need?