Euripides' ORESTES Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Electra: Wilt put thy feet upon the ground and take a step at last?
Change is always pleasant.

Orestes: That will I; for that has a semblance of health; and that
seeming, though it be far from the reality, is preferable to this.

Electra: Hear me then, O brother mine, while yet the avenging fiends
permit thee to use thy senses.

Orestes: Hast news to tell? so it be good, thou dost me a kindness;
but if it tend to my hurt, lo! I have sorrow enough.

Electra: Menelaus, thy father's brother, is arrived; in Nauplia his
fleet lies at anchor.

Orestes: Ha! is he come to cast a ray of light upon our gloom, a man
of our own kin who owes our sire a debt of gratitude?

Electra: Yes, he is come, and is bringing Helen with him from the
walls of Troy; accept this as a sure proof of what I say.

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