Oh, who has ever seen such crime as this?
What dweller on the rough and hostile crags
Of Caucasus, or what Procrustes dire,
The terror of the land of Attica?
Lo I, the father, overwhelm my sons,1050
And by those very sons am overwhelmed.
Is there no limit to this crime of thine?
Atreus: When one for its own sake commits a crime,
There is a proper limit; but no end
Is possible when vengeance through the crime