Eumenides

Aeschylus

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

  1. How so? Teach the judges this.
Orestes
  1. By murdering her husband, she killed my father.
Chorus
  1. And so, although you are alive, she is free of pollution by her death.[*](She is freed from blood-guiltiness because her blood has been shed.)