ARGUMENT
The Erinnyes who appeared to Orestes after the murder of Clytæmnestra
made his life miserable, and drove him without
rest from land to land. And he, seeking to escape them,
had recourse to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, believing
that he who had sent him to do the work of vengeance would
also help to free him from this wretchedness. But the
Erinnyes followed him there also, and took their places even
within the holy shrine of the Oracle, and while Orestes knelt
on the central hearth as a suppliant, they sat upon the seats
there, and for very weariness fell asleep.
