Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. You give your consent?
Orestes
  1. Why would I not?
Electra
  1. My friends, I heard a voice that I could never have hoped to hear; nor could I have restrained my emotion in silence and without a cry, when I heard it.
  2. ah, me! But now I have you. You have appeared with that dear face, which I could never, even in misery, forget.