And waked from their dull calm the sluggish seas.

Clytemnestra: Oh, shameful thought! that I, the heaven-born child

Of Tyndarus, should give my daughter up

To save the Grecian fleet! I see once more

In memory my daughter's wedding day,

Which he made worthy of base Pelops' house,165

When, with his pious face, this father stood

Before the altar fires—Oh, monstrous rites!

E'en Calchas shuddered at his own dread words

And backward-shrinking fires. O bloody house,