But where am I to make ready the feast for the women?AgamemnonHere beside our gallant Argive ships.ClytemnestraFinely here! but still I must;Reading καλῶς γ᾽, ἀνασκαίως δὲ·, as Paley edits on his own correction. good come of it for all that!AgamemnonDo you know what to do, lady? Then obey me.ClytemnestraIn what matter? for I was ever accustomed to obey you.AgamemnonHere, where the bridegroom is, I will—ClytemnestraWhich of my duties will you perform in the mother’s absence?AgamemnonGive your child away with help of Danaids.ClytemnestraAnd where am I to be then?AgamemnonGo to Argos, and take care of your unwedded daughters.ClytemnestraAnd leave my child? Then who will raise her bridal torch?AgamemnonI will provide the proper wedding torch.ClytemnestraThat is not the custom; but you think lightly of these things.AgamemnonIt is not good for you to be alone among a soldier-crowd.ClytemnestraIt is good that a mother should give her own child away.AgamemnonYes, and that those maidens at home should not be left alone.ClytemnestraThey are well guarded in their maiden bowers.AgamemnonObey.ClytemnestraNo, by the goddess-queen of Argos!Go, manage matters out of doors; but in the house it is my place to decide ~~what is proper for maidens at their wedding~~.This line is rejected by Monk as spurious; Hermann proposes to read νυμφίοισι παρθένων, and without some such emendation it is diificult to find any meaning in it.