Eumenides

Aeschylus

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

  1. watch over him; true to your name, be his guide,[*](Hermes is the guide of the living on their journeys; as he is also the conductor of the souls of the dead to the nether world.)shepherding this suppliant of mine—truly Zeus respects this right of outlaws—as he is sped on towards mortals with the fortune of a good escort. Exit. Orestes departs escorted by Hermes. The Ghost of Clytaemestra appears.
Ghost of Clytaemestra
  1. Sleep on! Aha! Yet what need is there of sleepers?
  2. It is due to you that I am thus dishonored among the other dead; because of those I killed the dead never cease to reproach me, and I wander in disgrace. I tell you that I am most greatly accused by them.