Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. since I heard just now of this sweet-blowing dream. Never does the lord of the Hellenes, your producer forget,
  2. nor does the axe of long ago forget, striking with bronze on its jaws, which in most shameless disgrace annihilated him.
Chorus
  1. She, too, will come, she of many hands and many feet who lurks in her terrible ambush,
  2. the bronze-shod Erinys. For an unwed, unbetrothed passion for a marriage polluted by murder seized the pair, though divine law forbade it to them.