Zeus, as you say, gave you this oracular command, to tell Orestes here to avenge his father’s murder but to take no account at all of the honor due his mother? ApolloYes, for it is not the same thing—the murder of a noble man, honored by a god-given scepter, and his murder indeed by a woman, not by rushing arrows sped from afar, as if by an Amazon, but as you will hear, Pallas, and thosewho are sitting to decide by vote in this matter. She received him from the expedition, where he had for the most part won success beyond expectation,Literally trafficked better—better either than his foes, the Trojans; or beyond expectation (since he was guilty of the death of his daughter); or possibly, without any implicit comparative force, simply well. in the judgment of those favorable to him; then, as he was stepping from the bath, on its very edge, she threw a cloak like a tent over it,