Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. O frame dishonorably, godlessly wasted!
Electra
  1. Those ills of which you speak, stranger, are none other’s than mine.
Orestes
  1. Ah, pity for your unwed, ill-fated life!
Electra
  1. Why, stranger, do you stare and grieve in this way?