Electra
Euripides
Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.
- He sent them as spies of my wrongs.
- Then they see a part of it, and perhaps you are telling them the rest.
- They know; they have all these things in abundance.
- Then shouldn’t you have opened the doors to them long before? Go into the house; for in return for your good tidings, you shall find as much hospitality as my house holds in store.
- Servants, take their baggage within the house. Do not contradict me, since you are friends coming from a friend; for, even if I am poor, I will not display manners that are ill-bred.
- By the gods! Is this the man who makes a fraud of your marriage,
- because he does not want to shame Orestes?
- This is the one who is called my husband, unhappy as I am.
- Ah! There is no exact way to test a man’s worth; for human nature has confusion in it. For instance, I have seen before now the son of a noble father