Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. hurled to utter destruction from his golden chariot in disgraceful outrage, from that time to this, outrage and its many sorrows
  2. were never yet gone from this house.
Enter Clytaemnestra, with attendants, from the house.
Clytaemnestra
  1. You run loose again, it seems, since Aegisthus is not here, who used always to keep you at least from coming out to the gates and shaming your family. But now, since he is absent, you pay
  2. me no mind. And yet you have said of me often and to many listeners that I am a rash and unjust tyrant, who violently abuse you and yours. But it is not I who do violence; I only return the insults that I so often hear from you.