O Zeus, how shall I name this news—fortunate? Or terrible, but beneficial? It is a bitter thing, when by my own misery I preserve my life.PaedagogusWhy are you so despondent, lady, at my news?ClytaemnestraThere is a terrible power in motherhood; a mother may be wronged, but she can feel no hate for those whom she bore.PaedagogusThen it seems that we have come in vain.