Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. I would not have failed in one of two things: a noble salvation, or a noble destruction.
Orestes
  1. Silence! I hear someone walking inside as if to come out.
Electra
  1. Go in, strangers, especially since you bring a thing which no one
  2. could either turn away from these doors, or rejoice at receiving.