Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. You have told me of a grace higher still than the first, if a god brought you to our house;
  2. I acknowledge in it the work of the divine.
Orestes
  1. On the one hand I hesitate to curb your gladness, but on the other I fear that you may be overwhelmed by too much joy.
Electra
  1. O you who, after such a long time, saw fit to make your most happy journey and appear to me,