Sophocles' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by R. Jebb.

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Page 39

Electra: Alas for thy folly! How I have been pitying thee!

Chrysothemis: What, are not my tidings welcome?

Electra: Thou knowest not whither or into what dreams thou wanderest.

Chrysothemis: Should I not know what mine own eyes have seen?

Electra: He is dead, poor girl; and thy hopes in that deliverer are
gone: look not to him.

Chrysothemis: Woe, woe is me! From whom hast thou heard this?

Electra: From the man who was present when he perished.

Chrysothemis: And where is he? Wonder steals over my mind.

Electra: He is within, a guest not unpleasing to our mother.

Chrysothemis: Ah, woe is me! Whose, then, can have been those ample
offerings to our father's tomb?

Electra: Most likely, I think, some one brought those gifts in memory
of the dead Orestes.

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