Thy voice shall rule in this; thou judgest wisely.
Follow this man; here, side by side with him,
I’ll butcher thee. Seemed he a fairer man
Than was my father when my father lived?
Sleep thou, where he sleeps; him thou lovest well,
And whom thou chiefly shouldst have loved thou hatedst.
Clytemnestra.
I nursed thy childhood, and in peace would die.[n60]
Orestes.
Spare thee to live with me—my father’s murderer?