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. No, for wherever I go, the door is shut against me.
Menelaus
  1. Which citizens are driving you from the land?
Orestes
  1. Oeax, who refers to my father his reason for hating Troy.
Menelaus
  1. I understand; he is avenging on you the blood of Palamedes.
Orestes
  1. That was nothing to do with me; yet I am destroyed for three reasons.
Menelaus
  1. Who else? Some of the friends of Aegisthus, I suppose?
Orestes
  1. They insult me, and the city listens to them now.
Menelaus
  1. Will the city allow you to keep the scepter of Agamemnon?