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この読み物の本文は、アポロドーロス『ビブリオテーケー（ギリシア神話）』 摘要6 全29節。ホメロス『イリアス』『オデュッセイア』の本文ではない。
この病をどうすれば免れるかと問うと、神は「タウロイ人の地にある木像を持ち帰れば免れる」と答えた。タウロイ人はスキュタイ人の一派で、異国の者を殺して聖なる火に投げ込む。その火は境内にあり、ある岩を通って冥界から立ち上っていた。
When he inquired how he should be rid of his disorder, the god answered that he would be rid of it if he should fetch the wooden image that was in the land of the Taurians. Now the Taurians are a part of the Scythians, who murder strangers and throw them into the sacred fire, which was in the precinct, being wafted up from Hades through a certain rock.
オレステスがピュラデスとともにタウロイ人の地へ来ると、見つかって捕らえられ、縛られて王トアスの前へ引き出された。王は二人とも巫女のもとへ送った。だが、タウロイ人のもとで巫女を務めていた姉に見分けられ、オレステスは姉とともに逃げ、木像を持ち去った。木像はアテナイへ運ばれ、いまタウロポロスの像と呼ばれている。ただし、オレステスは嵐でロドス島へ流されたと言う者もおり、託宣に従って木像は城壁に安置して奉納されたという。
So when Orestes was come with Pylades to the land of the Taurians, he was detected, caught, and carried in bonds before Thoas the king, who sent them both to the priestess. But being recognized by his sister, who acted as priestess among the Taurians, he fled with her, carrying off the wooden image. It was conveyed to Athens and is now called the image of Tauropolus. But some say that Orestes was driven in a storm to the island of Rhodes, . . . and in accordance with an oracle the image was dedicated in a fortification wall.
そしてミュケナイへ来ると、彼は姉エレクトラをピュラデスに嫁がせ、自らはヘルミオネを——一説にはエリゴネを——娶ってテイサメノスをもうけ、アルカディアのオレステイオンで蛇に咬まれて死んだ。
and having come to Mycenae, he united his sister Electra in marriage to Pylades, and having himself married Hermione, or, according to some, Erigone, he begat Tisamenus, and was killed by the bite of a snake at Oresteum in Arcadia.