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,