Euripides' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Chorus: Ye sons of Zeus, may we draw near to speak with you?

Dioscuri: Ye may, since ye are not polluted by this murder.

Orestes: May I too share your converse, of Tyndareus?

Dioscuri: Thou too! for to Phoebus will I ascribe this deed of blood.

Chorus: How was it that ye, the brothers of the murdered woman, gods
too, did not ward the doom-goddesses from her roof?

Dioscuri: 'Twas fate that brought resistless doom to her, and that
thoughtless oracle that Phoebus gave.

Electra: But why did the god, and wherefore did his oracles make me
my mother's murderer?

Dioscuri: A share in the deed, a share in its doom; one ancestral
curse hath ruined both of you.

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