Euripides' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Orestes: First recognize the gods, Electra, as being the authors of
our fortune, and then praise me their minister and fate's. Yea, I
come from having slain Aegisthus in very deed, no mere pretence; and
to make thee the more certain of this, I am bringing thee his corpse,
which, if thou wilt, expose for beasts to rend, or set it upon a stake
for birds, the children of the air, to prey upon; for now is he thy
slave, once called thy lord and master.

Electra: I am ashamed to utter my wishes.

Orestes: What is it? speak out, for thou art through the gates of
fear.

Electra: I am ashamed to flout the dead, for fear some spite assail
me.

Orestes: No one would blame thee for this.

Electra: Our folk are hard to please, and love to blame.

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