O House of Hades and Persephone! O Hermes of the shades! O potent Curse, and you fearsome daughters of the gods, the Erinyes, who take note when a life is unjustly taken, when a marriage-bed is thievishly dishonored,come, help me, bring vengeance for the murder of my father and send me my brother. I no longer have the strength to hold up alone againstthe load of grief that crushes me.

ChorusAh, Electra, child of a most wretched mother, why are you always wasting away in this unsated mourning for Agamemnon, who long ago was godlessly