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Prologos 1–120 Parodos 121–250 Epeisodion 1 251–470 Stasimon 1 472–515 Epeisodion 2 516–820 Stasimon 2 823–870 Epeisodion 3 871–1055 Stasimon 3 1058–1095 Epeisodion 4 1098–1230 Stasimon 4 1232–1285 Epeisodion 5 1288–1380 Stasimon 5 1384–1440 Eksodos 1442–1505 Stasimon 6 1508–1510

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Eksodos

Orestes

Why so scared? Is the face so strange? 1475

Aegisthus

Who are the men into whose nets I have miserably fallen?

Orestes

Do you not perceive how you have long been addressing the living in terms suited to the dead?

Aegisthus

Ah, I read the riddle! It cannot be that

this is not Orestes who speaks to me! 1480

Orestes

And, though so good a prophet, were you deceived so long?

Aegisthus

Oh, I am destroyed, undone! Yet allow me to speak just a little.

Electra

By the gods, brother, do not allow him to speak any more or to plead at length!

When mortals are embroiled in misfortunes, how can one who is to die benefit from lapse of time? No, kill him as quickly as you can, and throw his corpse to the creatures from whom his kind should have burial, throw it far from our sight! For in my eyes this 1485

alone can bring us release from the misery of the past. 1490

Orestes

To Aegisthus. Go in, and quickly. Words are not at stake here, but your life.

Aegisthus

Why take me into the house? If this deed is just, what need is there of darkness? Why is your hand not quick to strike?

Orestes

Do not give orders, but go to where you struck down my father, so that in that very place you may die. 1495

Aegisthus

Is this dwelling doomed to see all the sufferings of us descendants of Pelops, both now and in time to come?

Orestes

Yours, at least. I am for you a consummate prophet in these matters.

Aegisthus