GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg007.perseus-eng2:275-280 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg007.perseus-eng2:275-280

and he observes all things and within his mind inscribes them. OrestesTaught by misery, I know many purification rituals, and I know where it is right to speak and equally to be silent; and in this case, I have been ordered to speak by a wise teacher.For the blood is slumbering and fading from my hand, the pollution of matricide is washed away; while it was still fresh, it was driven away at the hearth of the god Phoebus by purifying sacrifices of swine. It would be a long story to tell from the beginning,