Enter from the house Andromache and Molossus, bound, followed by Menelaus and his retinue.
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And lo, I see the pair [495] close joined, mother and son, before the palace under sentence of death. What an unhappy woman! And you, my child, how luckless you are, put to death because of your mother's bed, though you have no share [500] of blame in the eyes of the royal family.