Sophocles' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by R. Jebb.

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Aegisthus: The skill thou vauntest belonged not to thy sire.

Orestes: Thou bandiest words, and our going is delayed. Move forward!

Aegisthus: Lead thou.

Orestes: Thou must go first.

Aegisthus: Lest I escape thee?

Orestes: No, but that thou mayest not choose how to die; I must not
spare thee any bitterness of death. And well it were if this judgment
came straight-way upon all who dealt in lawless deeds, even the judgment
of the sword: so should not wickedness abound. (Orestes and Pylades
drive Aegisthus into the palace.)

Chorus: (singing) O house of Atreus, through how many sufferings
hast thou come forth at last in freedom, crowned with good by this
day's enterprise!


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