Orest. What shall I do, my Pylades? Shall I
Through this respect forbear to slay my mother?
Pyl.[[452]] Where, then, are Loxias' other oracles,
The Pythian counsels, and the fast-sworn vows?
Have all men hostile rather than the Gods.
Orest. My judgment goes with thine; thou speakest well:
[To Clytæmnestra] Follow: I mean to slay thee where he lies,
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For while he lived thou held'st him far above
My father. Sleep thou with him in thy death,