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Ægisthos. Thou confessest thou hast slain

Of thy free will our chieftain here,—that thou

Alone did'st plot this murder lamentable;

Be sure, I say, thy head shall not escape

The righteous curse a people hurls with stones.

Ægisth. Dost thou say this, though seated on the bench

Of lowest oarsmen, while the upper row

Commands the ship?[[398]] But thou shalt find, though old,

How hard it is at such an age to learn,