Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. Would that Aegisthus, too, were wounded!
Chorus
  1. The curses bring fulfillment: those who are buried live.
  2. For men long dead are draining their killers’ blood in a stream of requital.
Enter Orestes and Pylades from the house.
Chorus
  1. And now they are here! The red hand drips with sacrifice to Ares, and I cannot blame the deed.