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.

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