Sophocles' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by R. Jebb.

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Page 51

Orestes: Alas, what shall I say? What words can serve me at this pass?
I can restrain my lips no longer!

Electra: What hath troubled thee? Why didst thou say that?

Orestes: Is this the form of the illustrious Electra that I behold?

Electra: It is; and very grievous is her plight.

Orestes: Alas, then, for this miserable fortune!

Electra: Surely, sir, thy lament is not for me?

Orestes: O form cruelly, godlessly misused!

Electra: Those ill-omened words, sir, fit no one better than me.

Orestes: Alas for thy life, unwedded and all unblest!

Electra: Why this steadfast gaze, stranger, and these laments?

Orestes: How ignorant was I, then, of mine own sorrows!

Electra: By what that hath been said hast thou perceived this?

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