Is lightened by Aegisthus, evermore,
As hitherto, constant in love to me;
My shield, my courage!“[[15]]
CLYTÆMNESTRA
Hon. John Collier
By permission from the original picture in the Guildhall Art Gallery
Then, as the elders mourn the death of the king and the demon of vengeance that haunts the house, Clytemnestra, in passionate conviction, declares that she has been merely an instrument of that spirit of vengeance.
“But I
Here make my compact with the hellish Power
That haunts the house of Atreus. What has been,
Though hard, we will endure. But let him leave