But when you have set all the house in order, lead the women forth from the well-built hall to a place between the dome and the brilliant fence of the court, and there strike them down with your long swords, until you take away the life from them all, and they forget the love which they had at the bidding of the suitors, when they lay with them in secret.
αὐτὰρ ἐπὴν δὴ πάντα δόμον κατακοσμήσησθε , δμῳὰς ἐξαγαγόντες ἐϋσταθέος μεγάροιο , μεσσηγύς τε θόλου καὶ ἀμύμονος ἕρκεος αὐλῆς , θεινέμεναι ξίφεσιν τανυήκεσιν , εἰς ὅ κε πασέων ψυχὰς ἐξαφέλησθε καὶ ἐκλελάθωντ' Ἀφροδίτης , τὴν ἄρ' ὑπὸ μνηστῆρσιν ἔχον μίσγοντό τε λάθρη . &quot;
ἀτάρ ἐπήν δή πᾶς δόμος κατακοσμέω , δμωή ἐξάγω εὐσταθής μέγαρον , μεσηγύ τε θόλος καί ἀμύμων ἕρκος αὐλή , θείνω ξίφος τανυήκης , εἰς ὅς ἄν πᾶς ψυχή ἐξαφαιρέω καί ἐκλανθάνω Ἀφροδίτη , ὁ ἄρα ὑπό μνηστήρ ἔχω μίγνυμι τε λάθρῃ . &quot;