Sophocles' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by R. Jebb.

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Page 54

Orestes: Hush!-no such word!-Thou hast no right to lament.

Electra: No right to lament for my dead brother?

Orestes: It is not meet for thee to speak of him thus.

Electra: Am I so dishonoured of the dead?

Orestes: Dishonoured of none:- but this is not thy part.

Electra: Yes, if these are the ashes of Orestes that I hold.

Orestes: They are not; a fiction dothed them with his name. (He gently
takes the urn from her.)

Electra: And where is that unhappy one's tomb?

Orestes: There is none; the living have no tomb.

Electra: What sayest thou, boy?

Orestes: Nothing that is not true.

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