Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. Most likely, I think, someone placed those gifts in memory of the dead Orestes.
Chrysothemis
  1. Oh, my misfortune! And I was hurrying here
  2. with such joyous nows, ignorant after all of our downfall. But now that I have arrived, I find fresh sorrows added to the old!
Electra
  1. So it stands with you. Yet if you will be persuaded by me, you will lighten the load of our present trouble.