Electra
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 6: The Electra. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1894.
- Remember, Electra, you are the child of a mortal father, and Orestes was mortal. Therefore do not grieve too much. Death is a debt which all of us must pay.
- Ah, what shall I say? I am at a loss. To what words
- can I turn? I no longer have the strength to master my tongue!
- What has troubled you? Why did you say that?