"The son is viler, viler than the sire!"

Alcimedon.

The man is armed!

Orestes.

[Continuing amid general confusion.

"Achilles' son slew women and slew babes,
But quailed before the blood-wrath of a churl;
And stole another's bride; and fled, fled, fled!"

[Tumult in hall.

Alcimedon.

Down with him!

Pyrrhus.