Sophocles' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by R. Jebb.

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Page 35

Chorus: Alas indeed! for the murderess-

Electra: Was slain.

Chorus: Yea.

Electra: I know it, I know it; for a champion arose to avenge the
mourning dead; but to me no champion remains; for he who yet was left
hath been snatched away.

Chorus: (strophe 2)

Hapless art thou, and hapless is thy lot!

Electra: Well know I that, too well,- I, whose life is a torrent of
woes dread and dark, a torrent that surges through all the months!

Chorus: We have seen the course of thy sorrow.

Electra: Cease, then, to divert me from it, when no more-

Chorus: How sayest thou?

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