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His sister Electra persuaded him to avenge Agamemnon's death by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
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Orestes or Orestis is a Greek name, meaning "he who stands on the mountain" or "one who can conquer mountains". Orestes in Greek mythology is the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon , brother of Electra and Iphigenia . He is noted for avenging the murder ...
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Selwey, along with what I knew about little men with Napoleon complexes and misogynous men with Orestes complexes, made me wonder what I was in for.
The consul Orestes finally managed to establish order, and Catulus asked to speak.
Lucius Aurelius Orestes, not a well man at the best of times, was lying full length in the vestibule being tended by an anxious praetor.
Not one day after I received your chastening note, your esteemed colleague Lucius Aurelius Orestes, the junior consul, died suddenly.
Now Orestes, they say, dedicated not merely one image of Diana in one place, but many and in many places.