Clytaemestra:
No shame, I think, in the death given
this man. And did he not
first of all in this house wreak death
by treachery?
The flower of this man’s love and mine,
Iphigeneia of the tears
he dealt with even as he has suffered.
Let his speech in death’s house be not loud.
With the sword he struck,
with the sword he paid for his own act.
From Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
Translated by Richmond Lattimore
(As read by Dean Temple for the January 12, 2006 podcast)