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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ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐκ σέθεν
ᾠκτίρεθʼ οὗτος οὐδʼ ὁ γεννήσας πατήρ.
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Χορός
ὦ πόλις, ὦ γενεὰ τάλαινα, νῦν σοι
μοῖρα καθαμερία φθίνει φθίνει.
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Κλυταιμνήστρα
1415
ὤμοι πέπληγμαι.
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Ἠλέκτρα
παῖσον, εἰ σθένεις, διπλῆν.
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Κλυταιμνήστρα
ὤμοι μάλʼ αὖθις.
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Ἠλέκτρα
εἰ γὰρ Αἰγίσθῳ θʼ ὁμοῦ.
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Χορός
τελοῦσʼ ἀραί· ζῶσιν οἱ γᾶς ὑπαὶ κείμενοι.
1420
παλίρρυτον γὰρ αἷμʼ ὑπεξαιροῦσι τῶν
κτανόντων οἱ πάλαι θανόντες.
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Χορός
καὶ μὴν πάρεισιν οἵδε· φοινία δὲ χεὶρ
στάζει θυηλῆς Ἄρεος, οὐδʼ ἔχω ψέγειν.
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Ἠλέκτρα
Ὀρέστα, πῶς κυρεῖτε;
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Ὀρέστης
τἀν δόμοισι μὲν
1425
καλῶς, Ἀπόλλων εἰ καλῶς ἐθέσπισεν.
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Ἠλέκτρα
τέθνηκεν ἡ τάλαινα;
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Ὀρέστης
μηκέτʼ ἐκφοβοῦ
μητρῷον ὥς σε λῆμʼ ἀτιμάσει ποτέ.
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Χορός
παύσασθε· λεύσσω γὰρ Αἴγισθον ἐκ προδήλου.
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Ἠλέκτρα
1430
ὦ παῖδες, οὐκ ἄψορρον;
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Ὀρέστης
εἰσορᾶτε ποῦ τὸν ἄνδρʼ;
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Ἠλέκτρα
ἐφʼ ἡμῖν οὗτος ἐκ προαστίου
χωρεῖ γεγηθὼς...
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Χορός
βᾶτε κατʼ ἀντιθύρων ὅσον τάχιστα,
1435
νῦν, τὰ πρὶν εὖ θέμενοι, τάδʼ ὡς πάλιν.
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Ὀρέστης
θάρσει· τελοῦμεν.
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Ἠλέκτρα
ᾗ νοεῖς ἔπειγέ νυν.
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Ὀρέστης
καὶ δὴ βέβηκα.
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Ἠλέκτρα
τἀνθάδʼ ἂν μέλοιτʼ ἐμοί.
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