Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. What must I do?
Orestes
  1. When it is inopportune, do not want to speak too much.
Electra
  1. No, who could exchange due silence for speech, when you have appeared? For now my eyes have seen you, beyond all thought and hope!
Orestes
  1. You saw me when the gods moved me to come. ---