GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg007.perseus-eng2:480-490 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg007.perseus-eng2:480-490

So stands the case: either course—to let them stay, to drive them out—brings disaster and perplexity to me. But since this matter has fallen here, I will select judges of homicide bound by oath, and I will establish this tribunal for all time.Summon your witnesses and proofs, sworn evidence to support your case; and I will return when I have chosen the best of my citizens, for them to decide this matter truly, after they take an oath that they will pronounce no judgment contrary to justice. Exit

ChorusHere is the overturning of new laws, if the wrongful cause of this matricide is to triumph. Now his deed will accustom all men