24 James T. Lees, 



'Prio-lS OF KlyTAIMNESTRA, IOII-I050. 



(Vv. loii, I0I2 are an answer to the preceding words of 

 Elektra.) 



1. UpOOifjLLOV, IOI3-IOI7: 



Xe^ft) Be • KULTOi 80^' orav \dj3r] KaKrj 

 lyvvatKa^ yXdoaay 7riKp6Tri<i eveari ri? • 

 ft)? fiev Trap' /jfiiv, ov Ka\a)<i ' to 7rpdy/j.a Se 

 fxa$6vTa<i, rjv fiev d^iaxi jxiaelv exV' 

 crrvjelv Slkulov ' el Be yu.?;, tc Bel arvyelv ; 



2. Ilp66eai<i included in the 7riaTeL<i. 



3. nto-rei?, 10 1 8-1048 : 



a. loi 8-1023. Tyndareos gave me in marriage to your 

 father, but not that my husband might kill my children, 

 which he did ; for he allured my daughter from home to 

 Aulis by a promise of marriage to Achilles, and there put 

 her to death. 



/3. 1024-1029. If he had killed her to prevent the capture 

 of a city, or to save the rest of his children, it would have 

 been pardonable, but he did it on account of the wantonness 

 of Helen and the laches of her husband. . 



7. 1030-1034. Although I felt deeply injured by that act, 

 I would not have killed my husband, had he not returned 

 with a raving, god-possessed young dame to share his bed. 



B. 103 5-1040. Women are foolish, I grant ; but when a 

 husband neglects his home-duties, it is natural for the wife 

 to imitate him and secure another lover. She then has all 

 the blame. 



e. 1041-1048. If Menelaos had been secretly carried away 

 from home, ought I to have sacrificed Orestes in order to 

 save my sister's husband .-* ^ How would your father have 

 regarded that .'' Ought he not to die, since he killed my 

 daughter } 



^ Example of 7rapd5et7/ia. Cf. Orest. 507 fg. 



