Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. The two of us will depart; for so opportunity bids, chief ruler of every enterprise for men.
Within.
Electra
  1. ah, me, ah, joyless me!
Paedagogus
  1. Listen, my son; from the doors of the house, I think, came the sound of some serving girl moaning inside.
Orestes
  1. Can it be my joyless Electra? Shall we remain here and listen to her cries?