Euripides' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Clytemnestra: This is work for another, even for her who delivered
thee.

Electra: I was all alone in my travail and at the babe's birth.

Clytemnestra: Dost live so far from neighbours?

Electra: No one cares to make the poor his friends.

Clytemnestra: Well, I will go to offer to the gods a sacrifice for
the child's completion of the days; and when I have done thee this
service, I will seek the field where my husband is sacrificing to
the Nymphs. Take this chariot hence, my servants, and tie the horses
to the stalls; and when ye think that I have finished my offering
to the gods, attend me, for I must likewise pleasure my lord. (She
goes into the hut.)

Electra: Enter our humble cottage; but, prithee, take care that my
smoke grimed walls soil not thy robes; now wilt thou offer to the
gods a fitting sacrifice. There stands the basket ready, and the knife
is sharpened, the same that slew the bull, by whose side thou soon
wilt lie a corpse; and thou shalt be his bride in Hades' halls whose
wife thou wast on earth. This is the boon I will grant thee, while
thou shalt pay me for my father's blood. (Electra follows her into
the hut.)

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