Apollo.
And I will help this man, champion and save him,
My suppliant, my client; should I not,
Both gods and men would brand the treachery.
[The scene changes to the Temple of Pallas in Athens. A considerable interval of time is supposed to have elapsed between the two parts of the Play.
Enter Orestes.
Orestes.
Athena queen, at Loxias’ hest I come.
Receive the suppliant with propitious grace.
Not now polluted, nor unwashed from guilt