Is mastered only by the ills of life.
Attendant: And wilt thou then deceive the very ones320
Through whom thou plann'st another to deceive?
Atreus: That so they may themselves be free from guilt.
For what the need of implicating them
In crimes of mine? Nay, through my acts alone
My hate shall work its ends. But hold, my soul,
Thou doest ill, thou shrinkest from the task.
If thou dost spare thine own, thou sparest his325
As well. So then let Agamemnon be