Sophocles' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by R. Jebb.

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Page 64

Chorus: How is it?- what do they now?

Electra: She is decking the urn for burial, and those two stand close
to her

Chorus: And why hast thou sped forth?

Electra: To guard against Aegisthus entering before we are aware.

Clytemnestra: (within) Alas! Woe for the house forsaken of friends
and filled with murderers!

Electra: A cry goes up within:- hear ye not, friends?

Chorus: I heard, ah me, sounds dire to hear, and shuddered!

Clytemnestra: (within) O hapless that I am!- Aegisthus, where, where
art thou?

Electra: Hark, once more a voice resounds I

Clytemnestra: (within) My son, my son, have pity on thy mother!

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