I am ruined, to make plain to you my troubles in brief.PyladesYou must destroy me also; for friends have all in common.OrestesMenelaus is the worst of men to me and my sister.PyladesIt is natural for the husband of an evil woman to become evil.OrestesHe no more repaid me by coming here, than if he had never come.PyladesOh, has he really arrived in this land?OrestesHe took a long time, but he was very soon detected as evil to his friends.PyladesAnd did he bring his wife, the worst of women, with him on his ship?OrestesIt was not he who brought her here, but she who brought him.PyladesWhere is she, the one woman who proved the ruin of so many Achaeans?OrestesIn my house; if, that is, I ought to call it mine.PyladesAnd what did you say to your father’s brother?OrestesNot to see me and my sister killed by the citizens.PyladesBy the gods! What did he say to that? I would like know this.OrestesHe was cautious, the usual policy of ignoble friends.PyladesWhat excuse did he advance? When I have learned that, I know everything.OrestesThere was a new arrival, the father who begot those noble daughters.PyladesYou mean Tyndareus; he was angry with you, perhaps, for his daughter’s sake?OrestesYou understand. And Menelaus preferred the family relationship with him to that with my father.PyladesHe did not have the courage to share your troubles, when he was here?