Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. No, these offerings are from Orestes! Come, dear sister, have courage! Not always does the same fortune, it is true, attend the same individuals. Ours was once to be despised, but today, perhaps, will seal the promise of much good.
Electra
  1. Oh, what foolishness! How I have been pitying you!
Chrysothemis
  1. What, is my news unpleasing to you?
Electra
  1. You do not know where on earth or into what dreams you wander.