How could I not know what I have plainly seen?ElectraHe is dead, poor girl, and yoursalvation by him is gone. Do not look to him.ChrysothemisAh, miserable me! From whom have you heard this?ElectraFrom the man who was present when he perished.ChrysothemisAnd where is he? Amazement steals over my mind.ElectraHe is inside, a welcome guest, not unpleasing to our mother.ChrysothemisAh, misery! Who, then, can have made those ample offerings to my father’s tomb?ElectraMost likely, I think, someone placed those gifts in memory of the dead Orestes.ChrysothemisOh, my misfortune! And I was hurrying herewith such joyous nows, ignorant after all of our downfall. But now that I have arrived, I find fresh sorrows added to the old!ElectraSo it stands with you. Yet if you will be persuaded by me, you will lighten the load of our present trouble.ChrysothemisHow can I ever raise the dead back to life?ElectraThat is not what I meant; I was not born so foolish.ChrysothemisWhat do you urge, then, of those things that I am capable of doing?ElectraThat you be brave in executing what I recommend.ChrysothemisIf any good can be done, I will not refuse.ElectraRemember, nothing succeeds without toil.ChrysothemisI know it, and I will share your burden with all my power.ElectraHear, then, in what way I have decided to take action. As for the support of friends, you yourself doubtless know that we have none. Hades has taken our friends away,