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EURIPIDES.

Kinship that bringeth bitterness to both. 510
Nay, but we are tangled in the net of fate!
We needs must work the murder of my child.


Menelaus.

How?—who shall force thee to destroy thine own?


Agamemnon.

The whole array of the Achaian host.


Menelaus.

Never, if thou to Argos send her back. 515


Agamemnon.

This might I secretly—that cannot I.


Menelaus.

What? Fear not thou the rabble overmuch.


Agamemnon.

Kalchas will tell the host the oracles.


Menelaus.

Not if he first have died—this were not hard.


Agamemnon.

The whole seer-tribe is one ambitious curse! 520


Menelaus.

Abominable[1] and useless,—while alive.

  1. ↑ Reading γ’ ἀρεστὸν (Nauck) for γε χρηστὸν "For nothing good."
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