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