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_Stage vacant a moment. Then enter by Distance-door Orestes and
Pylades._
_Orestes_ in conversation with his friend makes known he is come by
divine command to avenge his father's death: he has fulfilled the god's
first charge to present offerings on his father's tomb; the second is
that he must not enter the walls of the city; thus he wishes to find
his sister--now, as he hears, wedded to a peasant!--and consult--they
step aside as they see one whom 'female slave her tresses show'
approaching. {127}
_Re-enter Electra with her water-pot filled_: and in a _Monody_
(_strophe, antistrophe and epode_) laments her situation: laments for
her lost father, her brother afar off, in servitude it may be: and
adjures her father's spirit to send vengeance. {187}
PARODE JOINING ON TO EPISODE I
_Enter the Orchestra Chorus of Maidens of Mycenae, and in dialogue_
(_two Strophes and Antistrophes_) beg Electra to join them in an
approaching festival, as she had been wont in happier days.--Electra
declares she is fit for tears and rags, not for festivities.


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