Electra, Sophocles, creator; Sophocles with an English translation Vol 2; Storr, Francis, 1839-1919, editor, translator. London, New York: William Heinemann Ltd., The Macmillan Company, 1913.
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εἴπερ τι κλαίεις τῶν Ὀρεστείων κακῶν,
τόδʼ ἄγγος ἴσθι σῶμα τοὐκείνου στέγον.
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Ἠλέκτρα
ὦ ξεῖνε, δός νυν, πρὸς θεῶν, εἴπερ τόδε
1120
κέκευθεν αὐτὸν τεῦχος, εἰς χεῖρας λαβεῖν,
ὅπως ἐμαυτὴν καὶ γένος τὸ πᾶν ὁμοῦ
ξὺν τῇδε κλαύσω κἀποδύρωμαι σποδῷ.
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Ὀρέστης
δόθʼ, ἥτις ἐστί, προσφέροντες· οὐ γὰρ ὡς
ἐν δυσμενείᾳ γʼ οὖσʼ ἐπαιτεῖται τάδε,
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ἀλλʼ ἢ φίλων τις ἢ πρὸς αἵματος φύσιν.
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Ἠλέκτρα
ὦ φιλτάτου μνημεῖον ἀνθρώπων ἐμοὶ
ψυχῆς Ὀρέστου λοιπόν, ὥς σʼ ἀπʼ ἐλπίδων
οὐχ ὧνπερ ἐξέπεμπον εἰσεδεξάμην.
νῦν μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲν ὄντα βαστάζω χεροῖν,
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δόμων δέ σʼ, ὦ παῖ, λαμπρὸν ἐξέπεμψʼ ἐγώ.
ὡς ὤφελον πάροιθεν ἐκλιπεῖν βίον,
πρὶν ἐς ξένην σε γαῖαν ἐκπέμψαι χεροῖν
κλέψασα ταῖνδε κἀνασώσασθαι φόνου,
ὅπως θανὼν ἔκεισο τῇ τόθʼ ἡμέρᾳ,
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τύμβου πατρῴου κοινὸν εἰληχὼς μέρος.
νῦν δʼ ἐκτὸς οἴκων κἀπὶ γῆς ἄλλης φυγὰς
κακῶς ἀπώλου, σῆς κασιγνήτης δίχα,
κοὔτʼ ἐν φίλαισι χερσὶν ἡ τάλαινʼ ἐγὼ
λουτροῖς σʼ ἐκόσμησʼ οὔτε παμφλέκτου πυρὸς
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ἀνειλόμην, ὡς εἰκός, ἄθλιον βάρος,
ἀλλʼ ἐν ξέναισι χερσὶ κηδευθεὶς τάλας
σμικρὸς προσήκεις ὄγκος ἐν σμικρῷ κύτει.
οἴμοι τάλαινα τῆς ἐμῆς πάλαι τροφῆς
ἀνωφελήτου, τὴν ἐγὼ θάμʼ ἀμφὶ σοὶ
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πόνῳ γλυκεῖ παρέσχον· οὔτε γάρ ποτε
μητρὸς σύ γʼ ἦσθα μᾶλλον ἢ κἀμοῦ φίλος,
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