Why, surely she deserved it, the one who destroyed Hellas and the Phrygians too?OrestesSwear you are not saying this to humor me, or I will kill you.PhrygianI swear by my life, an oath I would keep!OrestesDid every Phrygian in Troy show the same terror of steel as you do?PhrygianTake your sword away! Held so near it flashes a dreadful gleam of blood.OrestesAre you afraid of being turned to a stone, as if you had seen a Gorgon?PhrygianTo a stone, no! but to a corpse; I don’t know this Gorgon’s head.OrestesA slave, and yet you fear death, which will release you from trouble?