Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. Ah, dear friends and fellow-citizens, see Orestes here, who was dead by design, and now by design has come safely home!
Chorus
  1. We see him, daughter, and for this happy turn of fortune a tear of joy trickles from our eyes.
Electra
  1. O seed, seed of the person to me most dear, you have just now come,
  2. you have come, and have found and seen her whom your heart desired!