Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. You can, indeed, though it is no enviable sight.
Aegisthus
  1. You have indeed given me a joyful greeting, beyond your custom.
Electra
  1. May joy be yours, if joy is what you find in these things.
Aegisthus
  1. Silence, I say, and throw wide the gates for all Mycenaeans and Argives to see,