Electra
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 6: The Electra. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1894.
- Your coming, sir, deserves large recompense, if you have stopped her clamorous tongue.
- Then I would take my leave, if all is well.
- Not so; your welcome would then be unworthy of me, and of my ally who sent you. No, come in. Leave her out here to shout out loud her misfortunes and those of her friends.Clytaemnestra and the Paedagogus enter the house.
- What do you think? Does it seem to you that she, poor woman, wept and wailed terribly,