Euripides' ORESTES Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Orestes: Hail to thee, prophetic Loxias, for these thy utterances!
Thou art not a lying prophet after all, but a true seer; and yet there
came a dreadful thought into my heart that it was some fiend I had
listened to, when seemed to hear thy voice; but all is ending well,
and I obey thy word. There! I release Hermione from a violent death
and agree to make her my wife whenever her father gives consent.

Menelaus: All hail, Helen, daughter of Zeus! I wish thee joy of thy
home in heaven's happy courts. To thee, Orestes, I betroth my daughter
according to the word of Phoebus, and good luck attend thee, a noble
wooer nobly wived, and me the parent of thy bride!

Apollo: Repair each one to the place appointed by me; reconcile all
strife.

Menelaus: Obedience is a duty.

Orestes: I think thus also, Menelaus; so here I make a truce with
sorrow and with thy oracles, O Loxias.

Apollo: (chanting) Go your ways, and honour Peace, most fair of goddesses;
I, meantime, will escort Helen to the mansions of Zeus, soon as I
reach the star-lit firmament. There, seated side by side with Hera
and Hebe, the bride of Heracles, she shall be honoured by men with
drink-offerings as a goddess for ever, sharing with those Zeus-born
sons of Tyndareus their empire o'er the sea, for the good of mariners.
(Apollo and Helen vanish.)

Chorus: (chanting) Hail! majestic Victory, still in thy keeping hold
my life and ne'er withhold the crown!



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