Euripides' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Electra: Yes, the old servant who tended my father's childhood long
ago.

Orestes: Did thy father's corpse obtain burial?

Electra: Such burial as it was, after his body had been flung forth
from the palace.

Orestes: O God! how awful is thy story! Yes, there is a feeling, arising
even from another's distress, that wrings the human heart. Say on,
that when know the loveless tale, which yet I needs must hear, I may
carry it to thy brother. For pity, though it has no place in ignorant
natures, is inborn in the wise; still it may cause trouble to find
excessive cleverness amongst the wise.

Leader: I too am stirred by the same desire as the stranger. For dwelling
so far from the city I know nothing of its ills, and I should like
to hear about them now myself.

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