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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τὸ συγγενές τοι κἀπʼ ἐμοῦ θρήνων τύχῃ.
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Ὀρέστης
1470
αὐτὸς σὺ βάσταζʼ· οὐκ ἐμὸν τόδʼ, ἀλλὰ σόν,
τὸ ταῦθʼ ὁρᾶν τε καὶ προσηγορεῖν φίλως.
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Αἴγισθος
ἀλλʼ εὖ παραινεῖς κἀπιπείσομαι· σὺ δέ,
εἴ που κατʼ οἶκόν μοι Κλυταιμνήστρα, κάλει.
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Ὀρέστης
αὕτη πέλας σοῦ· μηκέτʼ ἄλλοσε σκόπει.
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Αἴγισθος
1475
οἴμοι, τί λεύσσω;
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Ὀρέστης
τίνα φοβεῖ; τίνʼ ἀγνοεῖς;
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Αἴγισθος
τίνων ποτʼ ἀνδρῶν ἐν μέσοις ἀρκυστάτοις πέπτωχʼ ὁ τλήμων;
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Ὀρέστης
οὐ γὰρ αἰσθάνει πάλαι
ζῶντας θανοῦσιν οὕνεκʼ ἀνταυδᾷς ἴσα;
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Αἴγισθος
1480
οἴμοι, ξυνῆκα τοὔπος· οὐ γὰρ ἔσθʼ ὅπως
ὅδʼ οὐκ Ὀρέστης ἔσθʼ ὁ προσφωνῶν ἐμέ.
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Ὀρέστης
καὶ μάντις ὢν ἄριστος ἐσφάλλου πάλαι.
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Αἴγισθος
ὄλωλα δὴ δείλαιος. ἀλλά μοι πάρες
κἂν σμικρὸν εἰπεῖν.
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Ἠλέκτρα
μὴ πέρα λέγειν ἔα
1485
πρὸς θεῶν, ἀδελφέ, μηδὲ μηκύνειν λόγους.
τί γὰρ βροτῶν ἂν σὺν κακοῖς μεμιγμένων
θνῄσκειν ὁ μέλλων οὐ χρόνου κέρδος φέροι;
ἀλλʼ ὡς τάχιστα κτεῖνε καὶ κτανὼν πρόθες
ταφεῦσιν, ὧν τόνδʼ εἰκός ἐστι τυγχάνειν,
1490
ἄποπτον ἡμῶν· ὡς ἐμοὶ τόδʼ ἂν κακῶν
μόνον γένοιτο τῶν πάλαι λυτήριον.
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Ὀρέστης
χωροῖς ἂν εἴσω σὺν τάχει· λόγων γὰρ οὐ
νῦν ἐστιν ἁγών, ἀλλὰ σῆς ψυχῆς πέρι.
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Αἴγισθος
τί δʼ ἐς δόμους ἄγεις με; πῶς, τόδʼ εἰ καλὸν
τοὔργον, σκότου δεῖ κοὐ πρόχειρος εἶ κτανεῖν;
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Ὀρέστης
1495
μὴ τάσσε· χώρει δʼ ἔνθαπερ κατέκτανες
πατέρα τὸν ἀμόν, ὡς ἂν ἐν ταὐτῷ θάνῃς.
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