death! What mightst thou not have wrought? ELECTRA My nature was the same then, but my mind less r...
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Alas indeed! for the murderess- ELECTRA Was slain. CHORUS Yea. ELECTRA I know it, I know it; f...
to us all, even as we ask! For the rest, though I be silent, I deem that thou, a god, must know it;...
Tell what thou canst; a little word hath often marred, or made, men's fortunes. CHRYSOTHEMIS 'Tis...
comforters! Such ills must be numbered with those which have no cure; I can never know a respite fr...
410 BC ELECTRA by Sophocles translated by R. C. Jebb CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ORESTES, son of Aga...
support; for all is amiss with that which is in my hands,-and yonder, again, a crushing fate hath l...
MESSENGER Dwellers by the house of Cadmus and of Amphion, there is no estate of mortal life that I...
deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by fenced city, or dark, sea-beaten ships. antistrophe 1 ...
CREON O dastard nature, yielding place to woman! HAEMON Thou wilt never find me yield to baseness...
Thy choice was to live; mine, to die. ISMENE At least thy choice was not made without my protest. ...
him:-but where is Creon? (CREON enters hurriedly from the palace.) LEADER Lo, he comes forth agai...
first of all, how true and constant was your reverence for the royal power of Laius; how, again, wh...
440 BC ANTIGONE by Sophocles translated by R. C. Jebb CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY daughters of Oedip...
To have been a coward than too bold against me. (ODYSSEUS enters.) LEADER In good time, King Odys...