Orestes

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.

  1. This is the sixth day; her funeral pyre is still warm.
Menelaus
  1. How soon the goddesses arrived to avenge your mother’s blood!
Orestes
  1. I am not clever, but I am by nature a true friend to my friends.
Menelaus
  1. Does your father give you any help at all, for your avenging him?
Orestes
  1. Not yet; I call delay the equal of inaction.
Menelaus
  1. How do you stand in the city after that deed of yours?
Orestes
  1. I am so hated that no one will speak to me.
Menelaus
  1. Have your hands not even been cleaned of blood, according to custom?