Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. Yes.
Electra
  1. I know it; I know it. For a champion arose to avenge the grieving dead. But for me no champion remains: he who yet remained has been snatched clean away.
Chorus
  1. Unhappy are you, unhappy your destiny!
Electra
  1. How well I know that, all too well, with my life swept through all the months by abundant terrors and horrors!