Electra

Sophocles

Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 6: The Electra. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1894.

  1. for observance of nature’s highest laws you win the noblest prize by your reverence toward Zeus.
Enter Orestes, with Pylades and two attendants.
Orestes
  1. Ladies, have we been directed aright, and are we on the right path to our goal?
Chorus
  1. What do you seek? What desire brings you here?
Orestes
  1. I have long been searching for the home of Aegisthus.