Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. create for them sufferings in penalty, and may they never have enjoyment of their splendor since they have committed such crimes!
Chorus
  1. Be advised to say no more; do you not see by what actions
  2. under the present circumstances you plunge so shamefully into self-made miseries? You have far excelled in achieving misfortune, ever breeding wars in your hardhearted soul. But such strife
  3. should not be pushed into a conflict with the powerful.