CHOR. Among marvels and things passing even fable are these things which I shall tell as having myself beheld, and not from hearsay.
PYL. It is meet indeed that friends coming into the presence of friends, Orestes, should embrace one another with their hands, but, having ceased from mournful matters, it behooves you also to betake you to those measures by which we, obtaining the glorious name of safety, may depart from this barbarian earth. For it is the part of wise men, not wandering from their present chance, when they have obtained an opportunity, to acquire further delights.[[122]]
OR. Thou sayest well. But I think that fortune will take care of this with us. For if a man be zealous, it is likely that the divine power will have still greater power.
IPH. Do not restrain or hinder me from your words, not first to know what fortune of life Electra has obtained, for this were pleasant to me [to hear.][[123]]
OR. She is partner with this man, possessing a happy life.
IPH. And of what country is he, and son of what man born?
OR. Strophius the Phocian is styled his father.
IPH. And he is of the daughter of Atreus, a relative of mine?
OR. Ay, a cousin, my only certain friend.
IPH. Was he not in being, when my father sought to slay me?