[394]. Clytæmnestra still harps (though in ambiguous words, which may refer also to the murder of the children of Thyestes) upon the death of Iphigeneia as the crime which it had been her work to avenge.
[395]. Perhaps, “And that, too, not a slave's.”
[396]. Here the genealogy is carried one step further to Pleisthenes, the father of Tantalos.
[397]. Ægisthos, in his version of the story, suppresses the adultery of Thyestes with the wife of Atreus, which led the latter to his horrible revenge.
[398]. The image is taken from the trireme with its three benches full of rowers. The Chorus is compared to the men on the lowest, Ægisthos and Clytæmnestra to those on the uppermost bench.
[399]. The earliest occurrence of the proverb with which we are familiar through the history of St. Paul's conversion, Acts ix. 5, xxvi. 14.
[400]. The trace-horse, as not under the pressure of the collar, was taken as the type of free, those that wore the yoke, of enforced submission.
THE LIBATION-POURERS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
Orestes