Disease the cutting or the caustic cure

Demands, we will apply it. I, meanwhile,

My hearth and home salute, and greet the gods,

Who, as they sent me to the distant fray,

Have brought me safely back. Fair victory,

Once mine, may she dwell with me evermore!

Clytemnestra.

Men! Citizens! ye reverend Argive seniors,

No shame feel I, even in your face, to tell

My husband-loving ways. Long converse lends