Be made a foul sty of adulterous lust?

A similar conjunction of murder and adultery is revealed in the words of Orestes,[83] who poses as a pioneer in the application of the death penalty to adultery:

Ye illustrious Argives ... to vindicate your honour,

Not less than to avenge my father’s death,

I did this deed. For should the husband’s blood

Leave on the wife’s hand no foul stain, full soon

The purple tide would flow, or you must sink—

O shame to manhood!—vile slaves to your wives.

Now she that to my father’s bed was false

Hath died for it. If you require my life,