What issue has been wrought within the house?

Let us hold back while they the deed are doing,

That we may seem as guiltless of these ills:

For surely now the fight has reached its end.

Enter Servant from the chief door

Serv. Alas! alas! my master perishes!

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Alas! alas! a third time yet I call.

Ægisthos is no more; but open now

With all your speed, and loosen ye the bolts