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[1502-1510] Electra 549<br />

Thou must go first.<br />

Lest I escape thee?<br />

ORESTES<br />

AEGISTHUS<br />

ORESTES<br />

No, but that thou mayest not choose how to die; I must not spare thee<br />

any bitterness of death. And well it were if this judgment came straightway<br />

upon all who dealt in lawless deeds, even the judgment of the sword:<br />

so should not wickedness abound.<br />

(ORESTES and PYLADES drive AEGISTHUS into the palace.)<br />

CHORUS {singing)<br />

O house of Atreus, through how many sufferings hast thou come<br />

forth at last in freedom, crowned with good by this day's enterprise!<br />

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