Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. If you would tell me the vision, then I could answer.
Chrysothemis
  1. I know no more than a small part of the story.
Electra
  1. Tell me that, anyway; a small tale has often before now tripped men up, or set them upright.
Chrysothemis
  1. It is said that she saw the father of you and of me restored to the sunlight and to her company once more. Then he took the scepter—