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Aeschylus - The Eumenides Lines 593 611 Lyrics

Leader:
Answer count for count, charge for charge.
First, tell us, did you kill your mother?

Orestes:
I killed her. There's no denying that.

Leader:
Three falls in the match. One is ours already.

Orestes:
You exult before your man is on his back.

Leader:
But how did you kill her? You must tell us that.

Orestes:
I will. I drew my sword - more, I cut her throat.

Leader:
And who persuaded you? who led you on?

Orestes:
This god and his command.
(Indicating Apollo.)
He bears me witness.
Leader:
The Seer? He drove you on to matricide?

Orestes:
Yes,
and to this hour I have no regrets.

Leader:
If the verdict
brings you down, you'll change your story quickly.

Orestes:
I have my trust; my father will help me from the grave.

Leader:
Trust to corpses now! You made your mother one.

Orestes:
I do. She had two counts against her, deadly crimes.

Leader:
How? Explain that to your judges.

Orestes:
She killed her husband - killed my father too.
Leader:
But murder set her free, and you live on for trial.

Orestes:
She lived on. You never drove her into exile - why?

Leader:
The blood of the man she killed was not her own.