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Κλυταιμνήστρη

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Οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love.

Sophocles, Antigone, 523

French (Bailly abrégé)

ης (ἡ) :
ion. c. Κλυταιμνήστρα.

English (Autenrieth)

daughter of Tyndareus, sister of Helen, and wife of Agamemnon. She was slain at the same time that her paramour Aegisthus was killed by Orestes, Il. 1.113, Od. 3.266, , Od. 11.439. (See cut No. 33.)