Woe for this couch of thine dishonourable!)—

Slain by a subtle death,[[393]]

With sword two-edged which her right hand did wield.

Strophe VIII

Clytæm. Thou speak'st big words, as if the deed were mine;

Yet think thou not of me,

As Agamemnon's spouse;

But in the semblance of this dead man's wife,

The old and keen Avenger of the house

Of Atreus, that cruel banqueter of old,