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Aeschylus - The Libation Bearers Lines 890 920 Lyrics

Orestes:
O you win me over - good advice.
(Wheeling on clytabmnestra, thrusting her towards Aegisthus.)
This way -
I want to butcher you - right across his body!
In life you thought he dwarfed my father - Die! -
go down with him forever!
You love this man, the man you should have loved you hated.
clytaemnestra: I gave you life. Let me grow old with you.
Orestes: What - kill my father, then you'd live with me?
clytaemnestra: Destiny had a hand in mat, my child.
Orestes: This too: destiny is handing you your death.
clytaemnestra: You have no fear of a mother's curse, my son?
Orestes: Mother? You flung me to a life of pain.
clytaemnestra: Never flung you, placed you in a comrade's house.
Orestes: - Disgraced me, sold me, a freeborn father's son.
clytaemnestra: Oh? then name the price I took for you.

Orestes: I am ashamed to mention it in public.
clytaemnestra: Please, and tell your father's failings, too.
Orestes: Never judge him - he suffered, you sat here at home.
clytaemnestra: It hurts women, being kept from men, my son.
Orestes: Perhaps... but the man slaves to keep them safe at home.
clytaemnestra: - I see murder in your eyes, my child - mother's murder!
Orestes: You are the murderer, not I - and you will kill yourself.
clytaemnestra: Watch out - the hounds of a mother's curse will hunt you
down.
Orestes: But how to escape a father's if I fail?
clytaemnestra: I must be spilling live tears on a tomb of stone.
Orestes: Yes, my father's destiny - it decrees your death.
clytaemnestra: Ai - you are the snake I bore - I gave you life!
Orestes:
Yes!
That was the great seer, that terror in your dreams.
You killed and it was outrage - suffer outrage now.
(He draws her over the threshold; the doors close behind them, and the chorus gathers at the altar.)
LEADER: I even mourn the victims' double fates.
But Orestes fought, he reached the summit
of bloodshed here - we'd rather have it so.
The bright eye of the halls must never die.