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Menelaus.

And Argos—how on thy deed looketh she?

Orestes.

I am hated so, that none will speak to me.

Menelaus.

Cleansed are thine hands, as bids the law, from blood?

Orestes.

Barred from all homes am I whereto I seek.^[1]430

Menelaus.

Who of the citizens would banish thee?

Orestes.

Oiax^[2]—for Troy-born hate against my sire.

Menelaus.

Ay so—to avenge Palamedes' blood on thee.

Orestes.

Not mine the deed. I am trebly overmatched.

Menelaus.

What other?—be they of Aegisthus' friends?435

 

1. Hence he had not yet been purified, as this must be done in the unpolluted house of another, by the blood of victims and running water.
2. Brother of Palamedes. See Helen, l. 767.