Sophocles' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by R. Jebb.

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Page 52

Orestes: By seeing thy sufferings, so many and so great.

Electra: And yet thou seest but a few of my woes.

Orestes: Could any be more painful to behold?

Electra: This, that I share the dwelling of the murderers.

Orestes: Whose murderers? Where lies the guilt at which thou hintest?

Electra: My father's;- and then I am their slave perforce.

Orestes: Who is it that subjects thee to this constraint?

Electra: A mother-in name, but no mother in her deeds.

Orestes: How doth she oppress thee? With violence or with hardship?

Electra: With violence, and hardships, and all manner of ill.

Orestes: And is there none to succour, or to hinder?

Electra: None. I had one; and thou hast shown me his ashes.

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