could I disgrace my own flesh and blood, whom even as he lies here subdued by such massive troubles, you, making your pronouncements without a blush of shame, would thrust out without burial? Now consider this well: wherever you cast him away, with him you will also cast our three corpses.It is right for me to die before all men’s eyes while I am toiling in his cause, rather than for your wife—or should I say your brother’s? With this in mind, then, look not to my safety, but to yours instead, since if you cause me any grief at all, you will soon wishthat you had been more timid than bold when confronting me.Enter Odysseus.ChorusLord Odysseus, you arrive at the right time, if mediation, not division, is your purpose in coming.OdysseusWhat is the trouble, friends? From far off I heard shouting from the Atreidae over this brave man’s corpse.AgamemnonIs it not because we, Lord Odysseus, have long had to hear the worst, most shameful language from this man?OdysseusHow so? I can pardon a man a retaliatory barrage of abuse if another has insulted him.AgamemnonI insulted him, since his conduct toward me was of the same stripe.