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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg018.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="episode"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg018.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="1231" rend="indent">I remember all we said, it is you who have forgotten and now would take my life. By Pelops, I entreat you spare me, by your father Atreus and my mother here, who suffers now a second time the pangs</l><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg018.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="1235">she felt before when bearing me! What have I to do with the marriage of <placeName key="tgn,7008038">Paris</placeName> and Helen? Why is his coming to prove my ruin, father? Look upon me; bestow one glance, one kiss, that this at least I may carry to my death</l><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg018.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="1240">as a memorial of you, though you do not heed my pleading.</l><note resp="Coleridge">Nauck incloses l. 1240 in brackets as suspicious.</note><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg018.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="1241" rend="indent"><stage>holding up the baby Orestes.</stage> Feeble ally though you are, brother, to your loved ones, yet add your tears to mine and entreat our father for your sister’s life; even in babies there is a natural sense of evil.</l><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg018.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="1245">O father, see this speechless supplication made to you; pity me; have mercy on my tender years! Yes, by your beard we two fond hearts implore your pity, the one a baby, a full-grown maid the other. By summing all my pleas in one, I will prevail in what I say:</l></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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