In shame begot, they have no sense of shame.300
They have no feeling for their wretched sire,
None for their country. Naught but lust of power
Rules in their maddened breasts. I know full well
To what dire ends they tend, what monstrous deeds
They are prepared to do; and for this cause
I seek to find destruction's shortest path,
And haste to die, while yet within my house305
There is no soul more steeped in guilt than I.
O child, why dost thou weep about my knees,