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Agon, Pathos, Messenger, Threnos 357<br />

all <strong>the</strong>re, but scattered and broken since <strong>the</strong> conception which<br />

held <strong>the</strong>m toge<strong>the</strong>r has been lost.<br />

We noticed above in <strong>the</strong> Andromache (p. 6) that <strong>the</strong> inter-<br />

rupting Orestes-scene came with a sequence Messenger, Threnos,<br />

Epiphany <strong>of</strong> Orestes, and that, much in <strong>the</strong> manner <strong>of</strong> a deus ex<br />

machina he (1) saved and consoled Hermione, and (2) announced<br />

<strong>the</strong> Aition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> play.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> Orestes <strong>the</strong> hero does not return from <strong>the</strong> dead, and <strong>the</strong><br />

sequence is quite confused, but our supposed original Daimon-<br />

Orestes appears possibly to have left two ra<strong>the</strong>r curious traces.<br />

1. He is shown at <strong>the</strong> beginning <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> play lying like a dead<br />

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