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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οὔθʼ οἱ κατʼ οἶκον ἦσαν, ἀλλʼ ἐγὼ τροφός,
ἐγὼ δʼ ἀδελφὴ σοὶ προσηυδώμην ἀεί.
νῦν δʼ ἐκλέλοιπε ταῦτʼ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ
1150
θανόντι σὺν σοί· πάντα γὰρ συναρπάσας
θύελλʼ ὅπως βέβηκας. οἴχεται πατήρ·
τέθνηκʼ ἐγὼ σοί· φροῦδος αὐτὸς εἶ θανών·
γελῶσι δʼ ἐχθροί· μαίνεται δʼ ὑφʼ ἡδονῆς
μήτηρ ἀμήτωρ, ἧς ἐμοὶ σὺ πολλάκις
1155
φήμας λάθρᾳ προύπεμπες ὡς φανούμενος
τιμωρὸς αὐτός. ἀλλὰ ταῦθʼ ὁ δυστυχὴς
δαίμων ὁ σός τε κἀμὸς ἐξαφείλετο,
ὅς σʼ ὧδέ μοι προύπεμψεν ἀντὶ φιλτάτης
μορφῆς σποδόν τε καὶ σκιὰν ἀνωφελῆ.
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Ἠλέκτρα
1160
οἴμοι μοι.
ὦ δέμας οἰκτρόν. φεῦ φεῦ.
ὦ δεινοτάτας, οἴμοι μοι,
πεμφθεὶς κελεύθους, φίλταθʼ, ὥς μʼ ἀπώλεσας·
ἀπώλεσας δῆτʼ, ὦ κασίγνητον κάρα.
1165
τοιγὰρ σὺ δέξαι μʼ ἐς τὸ σὸν τόδε στέγος,
τὴν μηδὲν εἰς τὸ μηδέν, ὡς σὺν σοὶ κάτω
ναίω τὸ λοιπόν· καὶ γὰρ ἡνίκʼ ἦσθʼ ἄνω,
ξὺν σοὶ μετεῖχον τῶν ἴσων, καὶ νῦν ποθῶ
τοῦ σοῦ θανοῦσα μὴ ἀπολείπεσθαι τάφου.
1170
τοὺς γὰρ θανόντας οὐχ ὁρῶ λυπουμένους.
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Χορός
θνητοῦ πέφυκας πατρός, Ἠλέκτρα, φρόνει,
θνητὸς δʼ Ὀρέστης. ὥστε μὴ λίαν στένε.
πᾶσιν γὰρ ἡμῖν τοῦτʼ ὀφείλεται παθεῖν.
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Ὀρέστης
φεῦ φεῦ. τί λέξω; ποῖ λόγων ἀμηχανῶν
1175
ἔλθω; κρατεῖν γὰρ οὐκέτι γλώσσης σθένω.
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Ἠλέκτρα
τί δʼ ἔσχες ἄλγος; πρὸς τί τοῦτʼ εἰπὼν κυρεῖς;
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