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1490—1510] nothing but this can make amends for the woes of the past.

. (to ). Go in, and quickly; the issue here is not of words, but of thy life.

. Why take me into the house? If this deed be fair, what need of darkness? Why is thy hand not prompt to strike?

. Dictate not but go where thou didst slay my father, that in the same place thou mayest die.

. Is this dwelling doomed to see all woes of Pelops' line, now, and in time to come?

. Thine, at least; trust my prophetic skill so far.

. The skill thou vauntest belonged not to thy sire.

. Thou bandiest words, and our going is delayed. Move forward! . Lead thou. . Thou must go first. . Lest I escape thee? . No, but that thou mayest not choose how to die; I must not spare thee any bitterness of death. And well it were if this judgment came straightway upon all who dealt in lawless deeds, even the judgment of the sword: so should not wickedness abound.

. O house of Atreus, through how many sufferings hast thou come forth at last in freedom, crowned with good by this day's enterprise!