Euripides' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Orestes: What must we do to our mother? Slay her?

Electra: What! has pity seized thee at sight of her?

Orestes: O God! how can I slay her that bare and suckled me?

Electra: Slay her as she slew thy father and mine.

Orestes: O Phoebus, how foolish was thy oracle-

Electra: Where Apollo errs, who shall be wise?

Orestes: In bidding me commit this crime-my mother's murder!

Electra: How canst thou be hurt by avenging thy father?

Orestes: Though pure before, I now shall carry into exile the stain
of a mother's blood.

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