Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. Now by our mistress Artemis, you shall not escape the consequences of this audacity once Aegisthus returns.
Electra
  1. You see? You are driven to rage and, even though you grant me free speech, you have no patience to listen.
Clytaemnestra
  1. Will you not allow me to sacrifice without ominous shouting, when I have permitted you to say anything and everything you wished?
Electra
  1. I allow it; I exhort you to it: sacrifice! But do not blame my voice, for I would not say another word.