Sophocles' ELECTRA Complete

Translated by R. Jebb.

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Electra: I will fall, if need be, in the cause of my sire.

Chrysothemis: But our father, I know, pardons me for this.

Electra: It is for cowards to find peace in such maxims.

Chrysothemis: So thou wilt not hearken, and take my counsel?

Electra: No, verily; long may be it before I am so foolish.

Chrysothemis: Then I will go forth upon mine errand.

Electra: And whither goest thou? To whom bearest thou these offerings?

Chrysothemis: Our mother sends me with funeral libations for our sire.

Electra: How sayest thou? For her deadliest foe?

Chrysothemis: Slain by her own hand- so thou wouldest say.

Electra: What friend hath persuaded her? Whose wish was this?

Chrysothemis: The cause, I think, was some dread vision of the night.

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