Why, for instance, should Homer say of Clytæmnestra, that till corrupted by Ægisthus she was good?
As Callorus falls, �gisthus strikes at Dion and disarms him, sending his weapon against the curtains, left.
But as he spake King Ægisthus came back, asking, "Where be these strangers from Phocis that are come, telling how Prince Orestes hath come by his death in a chariot race?
For know that a husband thou shalt never have, for indeed Ægisthus is not unwise that he should suffer children to be born of thee or me to be a manifest damage to himself.
But Electra made reply, "Would that Ægisthus were smitten with thee!
And Ægisthus said, "Take the covering from off his face; for he is my kinsman, and should not miss due mourning from me.
And Electra made answer, "As for this present, know that Ægisthus is absent, and that the Queen is alone.
And at the first Electra went with him, but afterwards hastened out, to keep watch, lest perchance King Ægisthus should return.
Now there was a watchman whom Ægisthus had posted on a high place commanding the sea to look out for Agamemnon's return.
Now thou understandest why Ægisthus was able to work his will on Agamemnon, and why he escaped vengeance so long.
And how did Ægisthus contrive to slay a man mightier far than himself?
But Ægisthus seized upon the minstrel, and left him on a desert island to be devoured by carrion birds.
Forthwith Ægisthus prepared an ambush of twenty armed men; these he kept in hiding at the back of the hall, while he ordered his servants to prepare a great banquet.
Jove framed such dire destruction by the hands Of fell Ægisthus and my murth'ress wife.
By what means contrived Ægisthus to inflict the fatal blow, Slaying so much a nobler than himself?
One states that Ægisthus had set a watchman, with a promise of a large reward, to give him the earliest tidings of the return of the king.
Telemachus then changed the conversation, and asked Nestor how Ægisthus managed to kill Agamemnon, who was so much the better man of the two.
In the eighth year, however, Orestes came from Athens and killed him, and on the very day when 311 Orestes was celebrating the funeral feast of Ægisthus and Clytemnestra, Menelaus returned.
The gods meet in council and Jove makes a speech about the revenge taken by Orestes on Ægisthus (i.
He has in mind the case of Ægisthus whom the Gods warned not to do the wicked deed; still he did it in spite of the warning, and there followed the penalty.
But when Nestor has told the story of Ægisthus punished by the son Orestes, the impression is strong that there is a divine justice which overtakes the guilty man at last; such is the old man's lesson to the juvenile doubter.
Throughout the Odyssey the fateful story peeps from the background, and strongly hints what is to become of the suitors of Penelope, who are seeking to do to Ulysses what Ægisthus did to Agamemnon.
As it was by inveigling Clytemnestra that Ægisthus obtained the sovereign power, she must evidently have been its depository.
Such is the wickedness of Ægisthus and of the Suitors; such also that of the Giants.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gisthus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
