GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg012.perseus-eng2:975-983 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg012.perseus-eng2:975-983

I shall stand trial as a matricide, though I was pure before.ElectraAnd by not defending your father, you will be impious.OrestesI, my mother—? To whom will I pay the penalty for her murder?ElectraAnd to whom, if you give up our father’s vengeance?OrestesWas it a fiend who spoke in the likeness of the god?ElectraSeated on the holy tripod? I do not think so.OrestesI cannot believe that this oracle was well prophesied.ElectraDo not become a coward and fall into unmanliness!OrestesAm I to devise the same crafty scheme for her?