Eumenides

Aeschylus

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

  1. Error of judgment is the source of much distress, and the cast of a single ballot has set upright a house. The ballots are shown to Athena.
Athena
  1. This man is acquitted on the charge of murder, for the numbers of the casts are equal. Apollo disappears.
Orestes
  1. Pallas, savior of my house!