Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. If you suggest that I keep hope for those who have surely passed to Hades,
  2. you will trample even harder upon me as I waste away.
Chorus
  1. No, for I know that the prince Amphiaraus was ensnared by a woman’s chain of gold and swallowed up. And now beneath the earth—
Electra
  1. ah, me, ah, me!