Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. behavior compel me with harsh necessity to do this; for reprehensible deeds are learned from reprehensible examples.
Clytaemnestra
  1. You shameless creature! Truly I and my speech and my deeds give you too much to talk about.
Electra
  1. The words are yours, not mine; for yours
  2. are the deeds, and they find their own expression.