Euripides' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Electra: Aye, with the self-same axe that drank my father's blood.

Orestes: Am I to tell him this, and that thy purpose firmly holds?

Electra: Once I have shed my mother's blood o'er his, then welcome
death!

Orestes: Ah! would Orestes were standing near to hear that!

Electra: I should not know him, sir, if I saw him.

Orestes: No wonder; you were both children when you parted.

Electra: There is only one of my friends would recognize him.

Orestes: The man maybe who is said to have snatched him away from
being murdered?

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