Jove, say’st thou, touched thy tongue with inspiration,
To teach Orestes that he might avenge
A father’s death by murdering a mother?
Apollo.
His was no common father—Agamemnon,
Honoured the kingly sceptre god-bestowed
To bear—he slain by a weak woman, not
By furious Amazon with far-darting bow,
But in such wise as I shall now set forth
To thee, Athena, and to these that sit