Eumenides

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.

  1. Through your oracle, you directed the stranger to kill his mother.
Apollo
  1. Through my oracle, I directed him to exact vengeance for his father. What of it?
Chorus
  1. And then you agreed to take the fresh blood on yourself.