hurled to utter destruction from his golden chariot in disgraceful outrage, from that time to this, outrage and its many sorrowswere never yet gone from this house.

Enter Clytaemnestra, with attendants, from the house.ClytaemnestraYou run loose again, it seems, since Aegisthus is not here, who used always to keep you at least from coming out to the gates and shaming your family. But now, since he is absent, you payme no mind. And yet you have said of me often and to many listeners that I am a rash and unjust tyrant, who violently abuse you and yours. But it is not I who do violence; I only return the insults that I so often hear from you.