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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καὶ τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους πάντας ἀσφαλεῖς δρόμους
ὡρμᾶθʼ ὁ τλήμων ὀρθὸς ἐξ ὀρθῶν δίφρων·
ἔπειτα λύων ἡνίαν ἀριστερὰν
κάμπτοντος ἵππου λανθάνει στήλην ἄκραν
745
παίσας· ἔθραυσε δʼ ἄξονος μέσας χνόας
κἀξ ἀντύγων ὤλισθεν· ἐν δʼ ἑλίσσεται
τμητοῖς ἱμᾶσι· τοῦ δὲ πίπτοντος πέδῳ
πῶλοι διεσπάρησαν ἐς μέσον δρόμον.
στρατὸς δʼ ὅπως ὁρᾷ νιν ἐκπεπτωκότα
750
δίφρων, ἀνωλόλυξε τὸν νεανίαν,
οἷʼ ἔργα δράσας οἷα λαγχάνει κακά,
φορούμενος πρὸς οὖδας, ἄλλοτʼ οὐρανῷ
σκέλη προφαίνων, ἔς τέ νιν διφρηλάται,
μόλις κατασχεθόντες ἱππικὸν δρόμον,
755
ἔλυσαν αἱματηρόν, ὥστε μηδένα
γνῶναι φίλων ἰδόντʼ ἂν ἄθλιον δέμας.
καί νιν πυρᾷ κέαντες εὐθὺς ἐν βραχεῖ
χαλκῷ μέγιστον σῶμα δειλαίας σποδοῦ
φέρουσιν ἄνδρες Φωκέων τεταγμένοι,
760
ὅπως πατρῴας τύμβον ἐκλάχῃ χθονός.
τοιαῦτά σοι ταῦτʼ ἐστίν, ὡς μὲν ἐν λόγῳ
ἀλγεινά, τοῖς δʼ ἰδοῦσιν, οἵπερ εἴδομεν,
μέγιστα πάντων ὧν ὄπωπʼ ἐγὼ κακῶν.
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Χορός
φεῦ φεῦ· τὸ πᾶν δὴ δεσπόταισι τοῖς πάλαι
765
πρόρριζον, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἔφθαρται γένος.
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Κλυταιμνήστρα
ὦ Ζεῦ, τί ταῦτα, πότερον εὐτυχῆ λέγω,
ἢ δεινὰ μέν, κέρδη δέ; λυπηρῶς δʼ ἔχει,
εἰ τοῖς ἐμαυτῆς τὸν βίον σῴζω κακοῖς.
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Παιδαγωγός
τί δʼ ὧδʼ ἀθυμεῖς, ὦ γύναι, τῷ νῦν λόγῳ;
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Κλυταιμνήστρα
770
δεινὸν τὸ τίκτειν ἐστίν· οὐδὲ γὰρ κακῶς
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