Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. Do not give orders, but go to where you struck down my father, so that in that very place you may die.
Aegisthus
  1. Is this dwelling doomed to see all the sufferings of us descendants of Pelops, both now and in time to come?
Orestes
  1. Yours, at least. I am for you a consummate prophet in these matters.
Aegisthus
  1. The skill you boast about did not belong to your father.