Leader: No angry word, I entreat! For both of you there is good in
what is urged,- if thou, Electra, wouldst learn to profit by her counsel,
and she, again, by thine.
Chrysothemis: For my part, friends, I am not wholly unused to her
discourse; nor should I have touched upon this theme, had I not heard
that she was threatened with a dread doom, which shall restrain her
from her long-drawn laments.
Electra: Come, declare it then, this terror! If thou canst tell me
of aught worse than my present lot, I will resist no more.
Chrysothemis: Indeed, I will tell thee all that I know. They purpose,
if thou wilt not cease from these laments, to send thee where thou
shalt never look upon the sunlight, but pass thy days in a dungeon
beyond the borders of this land, there to chant thy dreary strain.
Bethink thee, then, and do not blame me hereafter, when the blow hath
fallen; now is the time to be wise.
Electra: Have they indeed resolved to treat me thus?
Chrysothemis: Assuredly, whenever Aegisthus comes home.
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