But since long line of murder culminates
In poor Orestes, this we yet accept,
That he, our one light, fall not utterly.
920
Strophe I
Late came due vengeance on the sons of Priam,
Just forfeit of sore woe;—
Late came there too to Agamemnon's house,
Twin lions, twofold Death.[[457]]
The exile who obeyed the Pythian hest