Stasimon 6
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
Thou boastest this deed to be mine:
For, showing himself in sign
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Of the spouse of the corpse thou dost see,
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Did the ancient bitter avenging-ghost
Pay the man here as price —
A full-grown for the young one’s sacrifice.
CHOROS.
That no cause, indeed, of this killing art thou,
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Who shall be witness-bearer?
How shall he bear it — how?
But the sire’s avenging-ghost might be in the deed a sharer.
By the kin-born flowing of blood,
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— Black Ares: to where, having gone,
He shall leave off, flowing done,
At the frozen-child’s-flesh food.
King, king, how shall I beweep thee?
From friendly soul whatever say?
Thou liest where webs of the spider o’ersweep thee
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In impious death, life breathing away.
By a slavish death subdued thou art,
From the hand, by the two-edged dart.
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KLUTAIMNESTRA.
No death unfit for the free
Do I think this man’s to be:
For did not himself a slavish curse
