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Who? Of the prosperous is not he I know.

One King Agamemnon, Atreus' scion named.

I know not. Lady, let his story be.

Nay, tell, by Heaven, that I be gladdened, friend.

Dead, hapless king!—and perished not alone.

Dead is he? By what fate?—ah, woe is me!

Why dost thou sigh thus? Is he kin to thee?

His happiness of old days I bemoan.

Yea, and his awful death—slain by his wife!

O all-bewailed, the murderess and the dead!

Refrain thee even now, and ask no more.