If indeed the stain of the matricide hath fallen on it.
Introduction Orestes is tried as a Matricide before the Court of the Areopagus at Athens.
But his chief reason for avoiding ‘the Eye of Greece’ was because he dreaded the Temple of the Furies, who had avenged the less guilty and more expiable matricide of Orestes.
And was he now called upon to advise the most feasible way in which a matricide could be accomplished?
Will she go to Rome and accuse me of matricide before the Senate and the people?
The great blot on his character is his having composed a justification of Nero's matricide on the plea of state necessity.
In vain the unhappy young man abased himself to humble flattery, to piteous entreaty, even to the incrimination of his own mother, a base proceeding which he hoped might gain him the indulgence of a matricide prince.
But that the accusation of matricide it not sufficiently established.
His worst political crime, and that which proved his ruin, was a severe reserve and a refusal to join in the shameful adulation of the matricide prince.
The revels and massacres and wild debauchery of Nero did not so much to hasten his destruction as his singing his catches to the lute, or appearing in the parts of the incestuous Canace and the matricide Orestes.
The matricide dreaded to return from Campania after his unnatural crime, but his admirers knew well the abasement of the Roman aristocracy, and promised him an enthusiastic reception.
It must be confessed that a great deal of the peculiar guilt of matricide evaporates in the process of explanation.
Footnote 203: This fratricide, concurring with the matricide of S.
New York and New Yorkers have been foremost in coming to the rescue when the matricide rebels dealt their first blow.
Apollo, ever known as a robber-god, has now delivered a matricide from his due doom.
We may compare the wanderings of the other matricide Alcmaeon, who could find no rest till he came to a new land on which the sun had not yet shone when he murdered his mother (Thucydides, ii.
The matricide Orestes is said to have polled his hair after appeasing the angry Furies of his murdered mother.
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