Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. one which will restrain her from her long mourning.
Electra
  1. Come then, name this terror! If you can tell me of anything worse than my present condition, I would resist no more.
Chrysothemis
  1. I will tell you all that I know. If you will not cease from your mourning, they intend
  2. to send you where you will never look upon the sun’s brilliance, but passing your life in a covered chamber beyond this land’s borders you will make hymns of your calamity. Think on this, and do not blame me later, when you suffer. Now is the time to think wisely.