'Tis easy to bear hardship for a time;
But to endure it long, an irksome task.
Attendant: Choose other servants of thy grim design.
Atreus: Young men lend ready ear to base commands.
Attendant: Beware, lest what against their uncle now310
Thou teachest them, they turn against their sire
In time to come. Full oft do crimes recoil
Upon the man who instigated them.
Atreus: Though none should teach them fraud and ways of crime,
The throne itself would teach them. Dost thou fear