O god that o’er the doomed Atridan halls[n93]

With might prevailest,

Weak woman’s breast to do thy headlong will

With murder mailest!

O’er his dead body, like a boding raven,

Thou tak’st thy station,

Piercing my marrow with thy savage hymn

Of exultation.

ANTISTROPHE III.
Clytemnestra.

Nay, but now thou speakest wisely;