[85] ix. 36.

[86] 941.

[87] 1300. Her miraculous translation to ‘heaven’ is not inconsistent with, but rather, we think, confirms our opinion that she was slain.

[88] See, e.g., Herodotus ii. 113 ff.; Eur. Helen, 1640 ff.; Troades, 875 ff.

[89] 1140.

[90] 1625.

[91] 1645.

[92] Laws, ix. chs. 8, 9.

[93] See supra, p. [256]. The command of Apollo was an extra-legal extenuation of Orestes’ act. This act therefore merited, though it did not actually receive, the ‘forgiveness’ of Clytaemnestra.

[94] 1648 ff.