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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
So I can say, 'Tis past and done.<br />
The bloody lust and murderous,<br />
The inborn frenzy of our house,<br />
Is ended, by my deed!<br />
AEGISTHUS and his armed attendants enter.<br />
AEGISTHUS<br />
Dawn of the day of rightful vengeance, hail!<br />
I dare at length aver that gods above<br />
Have care of men and heed of earthly wrongs.<br />
I, I who stand and thus exult to see<br />
This man lie wound in robes the Furies wove,<br />
Slain in the requital of his father's craft.<br />
Take ye the truth, that Atreus, this man's sire,<br />
The lord and monarch of this land of old,<br />
Held with my sire Thyestes deep dispute,<br />
Brother with brother, for the prize of sway,<br />
And drave him from his home to banishment.<br />
Thereafter, the lorn exile homeward stole<br />
And clung a suppliant to the hearth divine,<br />
And for himself won this immunity--<br />
Not with his own blood to defile the land<br />
That gave him birth. But Atreus, godless sire<br />
Of him who here lies dead, this welcome planned--<br />
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