Eksodos
[Episode]
Give back my wife’s dead body, so that I may bury her.
1585
Orestes
Ask the gods for her; but I will kill your daughter.
Menelaus
This matricide is adding murder to murder.
Orestes
This champion of his father, betrayed by you to death.
Menelaus
Are you not content with the present stain of your mother’s blood?
Orestes
I would not grow tired if I had these wicked women to slay for ever.
1590
Menelaus
Are you too, Pylades, a partner in this bloody work?
Orestes
His silence says he is; let it suffice for me to say it.
Menelaus
You’ll say it to your cost, unless you fly away!
Orestes
We will not try to escape; we will set fire to the palace.
Menelaus
What! will you destroy the home of your ancestors?
1595
Orestes
Yes, so that you don’t have it, and I will offer this girl in sacrifice on the fire.
Menelaus
Kill her; and if you do, I will punish you for it.
Menelaus
No, no! Don’t do it!
Orestes
Silence! Your sufferings are just; endure them.
Menelaus
Well, is it just that you should live?
1600
Orestes
And rule a kingdom, yes.
1600
Menelaus
A kingdom, where?
Orestes
Here in Pelasgian Argos.
