It is from us, they say, that evils come, but they even themselves, through their own blind folly, have sorrows beyond that which is ordained. So even now Aegisthus, beyond that which was ordained, took to himself the wedded wife of the son of Atreus, and killed him on his homecoming, although well he knew of sheer destruction, seeing that we told him beforehand, having sent Hermes, the keen-sighted Argeiphontes, that he should neither kill the man nor woo his wife;
ἐξ ἡμέων γάρ φασι κάκ' ἔμμεναι , οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ σφῇσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὑπὲρ μόρον ἄλγε' ἔχουσιν , ὡς καὶ νῦν Αἴγισθος ὑπὲρ μόρον Ἀτρεΐδαο γῆμ' ἄλοχον μνηστήν , τὸν δ' ἔκτανε νοστήσαντα , εἰδὼς αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον , ἐπεὶ πρό οἱ εἴπομεν ἡμεῖς , Ἑρμείαν πέμψαντες , ἐύσκοπον ἀργεϊφόντην , μήτ' αὐτὸν κτείνειν μήτε μνάασθαι ἄκοιτιν ·
ἐκ ἐγώ γάρ φημί κάκη εἰμί , ὁ δέ καί αὐτός σφός ἀτασθαλία ὑπέρ μόρος ἄλγος ἔχω , ὡς καί νῦν Αἴγισθος ὑπέρ μόρος Ἀτρείδης γαμέω ἄλοχος μνηστός , ὁ δέ κτείνω νοστέω , οἶδα αἰπύς ὄλεθρος , ἐπεί πρό ἕ εἶπον ἐγώ , Ἑρμῆς πέμπω , εὔσκοπος Ἀργειφόντης , μήτε αὐτός κτείνω μήτε μνάομαι ἄκοιτις ·