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.
- As to your women, I am silent—for it is not good for a maiden to speak of this—but I will tell riddles that can be understood. You were insolent because you had a king’s house and were endowed with good looks. May I never have a husband with a girl’s face, but one with a man’s ways.
- For the children of the latter cling to a life of arms, while the fair ones are only an ornament in the dance. Spurning the corpse with her foot Begone, knowing nothing of how you were discovered and paid the penalty in time. So let no evildoer suppose, even if he runs the first step well,
- that he will get the better of Justice, until he comes to the end of the finish-line and makes the last turn in life.
- He did terrible things, and repaid them to you and Orestes; for Justice has great strength.
- Well then; you must carry the body of this man inside
- and hide it, slaves, so that when my mother comes, she may not see his corpse before her slaughter.
- Wait! Let us go into another matter.
- What? Those are not rescuers from Mycenae whom I see?
- No, but the mother who bore me.