And meets me, face to face, and lifts his eyes,
And drops them, then be sure, before he says,
“Whence is this stranger?”—I will lay him dead,
With my swift-footed brazen weapon pierced;
And then Erinnys, stinted not in slaughter,
Shall drink her third draught of unmingled blood.[[431]]
Thou, then, [to Electra] watch well what passes in the house, 570
So that these things may dovetail close and well:
And you [to the Chorus] I bid to keep a tongue discreet,
Silent, if need be, or the right word speaking,