Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. No, lest you die in a manner which pleases you. I must be sure that your death is bitter for you.
  2. This just penalty ought to come straightaway upon all who would break the laws: the penalty of death. Then wrongdoing would not abound.
Chorus
  1. O seed of Atreus, through how many sufferings have you sprouted up at last in freedom,
  2. fulfilled by this day’s enterprise!