Electra
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 6: The Electra. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1894.
- Nature ordains death as the destiny of all mortals.
- What, a death like the one which that ill-fated one died beneath a race of swift hooves, entangled in the cutting, dragging reins?
- The mutilation is beyond thought!
- Yes, so it is, when in foreign soil, without being tended by my hands—