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Orestes
Did she do the deed or not? [1010] No, this is my witness, dyed by Aegisthus' sword. This is a stain of blood that helps time to spoil the many tinctures of embroidered fabric.

Now at last I speak his praises. Now at last I am present to lament him, as I address this web that wrought my father's death. [1015] Yet I grieve for the deed and the punishment and for my whole clan. My victory is an unenviable pollution.

Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2. Libation Bearers. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.

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