ELECTRASee also William Allan, "The Ethics of Retaliatory Violence in Athenian Tragedy," Mnemosyne 66.4/5 (2013) 593-615 (at 602-603).
And is this a righteous thing for me to ask of Heaven?
CHORUS
How not? To requite an enemy evil for evil?
ΗΛΕΚΤΡΑ
καὶ ταῦτά μοὔστιν εὐσεβῆ θεῶν πάρα;
ΧΟΡΟΣ
πῶς δ᾿ οὔ, τὸν ἐχθρόν γ᾿ ἀνταμείβεσθαι κακοῖς;
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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How Not?
Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 122-123 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth, slightly modified):