Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. Nature ordains death as the destiny of all mortals.
Electra
  1. What, a death like the one which that ill-fated one died beneath a race of swift hooves, entangled in the cutting, dragging reins?
Chorus
  1. The mutilation is beyond thought!
Electra
  1. Yes, so it is, when in foreign soil, without being tended by my hands—