For dreadful among Gods and mortals too
The suppliant's curse, should I abandon him.
[Exeunt
Scene changes to Athens, in front of the Temple of Athena Polias, on the Acropolis[[489]]
Enter Orestes
Orest. [clasping the statue of the Goddess.] O Queen Athena, I at Loxias' hest
Am come: do thou receive me graciously,
Sin-stained though I have been: no guilt of blood
Is on my soul, nor is my hand unclean,
But now with stain toned down and worn away,