Ha! how dare mortals tax the Gods, and say,
Their harms do all proceed from our decree,
And by our setting; when by their crimes they
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Against our wills make their own destiny?
As now Ægistus did Atrides kill
Newly come home, and married his wife;

“Look you now, how ready mortals are to blame the gods.
It is from us, they say, that evils come, but they even of themselves,
through their own blind folly, have sorrows beyond that which is ordained.
[35] Even as now Aegisthus, beyond that which was ordained,
took to himself the wedded wife of the son of Atreus, and slew him on his return,