Sophocles' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by R. Jebb.

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Orestes: Lift the veil thyself; not my part this, but thine, to look
upon these relics, and to greet them kindly.

Aegisthus: 'Tis good counsel, and I will follow it.- (To Electra)
But thou-call me Clytemnestra, if she is within.

Orestes: Lo, she is near thee: turn not thine eyes elsewhere. (Aegisthus
removes the face-cloth from the corpse.)

Aegisthus: O, what sight is this!

Orestes: Why so scared? Is the face so strange?

Aegisthus: Who are the men into whose mid toils I have fallen, hapless
that I am?

Orestes: Nay, hast thou not discovered ere now that the dead, as thou
miscallest them, are living?

Aegisthus: Alas, I read the riddle: this can be none but Orestes who
speaks to me!

Orestes: And, though so good a prophet, thou wast deceived so long?

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