Clytemnestra: He collapsed, snorting his life away, spitting great gobs of blood all over me, drenching me in showers of his dark blood. And I rejoiced-just as the fecund earth rejoices when the heavens send spring rains. (Aeschylus)

Clytemnestra: He collapsed, snorting his life away, spitting great gobs of blood all over me, drenching me in showers of his dark blood. And I rejoiced-just as the fecund earth rejoices when the heavens send spring rains.

Aeschylus

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