And again:
O Phoebus, they will kill me, those dire forms,
These Gorgon-visaged ministers of hell.[126]
The conflicting attitudes of the Erinnyes of Clytaemnestra and the Erinnyes of Agamemnon which we found in the Choephoroe of Aeschylus are also revealed in this play. Speaking of his father’s Erinnyes, Orestes says[127]:
Had I in silence tamely borne her deeds,
Would not the murdered, justly hating me,
Have roused the Furies to torment my soul?
Or hath she only her assisting fiends
And he no fav’ring power t’ avenge his wrongs?