That bar the women's gates. A man's full strength

Is needed; not indeed that that would help

A man already slain.

[Rushes to the gate of the woman's half of the

palace

Ho there! I say:

I speak to the deaf; to those that sleep I utter

In vain my useless cries. And where is she?

Where's Clytæmnestra? What doth she do now?

Her neck upon the razor's edge doth seem