ELECTRA By what that hath been said hast thou perceived this? ORESTES By seeing thy sufferings, s...
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Enter, sirs; especially as ye bring that which no one could repulse from these doors, though he rec...
O Zeus, I behold that which hath not fallen save by the doom of jealous Heaven; but, if Nemesis att...
Tell what thou canst; a little word hath often marred, or made, men's fortunes. CHRYSOTHEMIS 'Tis...
deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by fenced city, or dark, sea-beaten ships. antistrophe 1 ...
MESSENGER Dwellers by the house of Cadmus and of Amphion, there is no estate of mortal life that I...
440 BC ANTIGONE by Sophocles translated by R. C. Jebb CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY daughters of Oedip...
support; for all is amiss with that which is in my hands,-and yonder, again, a crushing fate hath l...
first of all, how true and constant was your reverence for the royal power of Laius; how, again, wh...
410 BC ELECTRA by Sophocles translated by R. C. Jebb CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ORESTES, son of Aga...
him:-but where is Creon? (CREON enters hurriedly from the palace.) LEADER Lo, he comes forth agai...
comforters! Such ills must be numbered with those which have no cure; I can never know a respite fr...
Thy choice was to live; mine, to die. ISMENE At least thy choice was not made without my protest. ...
CREON O dastard nature, yielding place to woman! HAEMON Thou wilt never find me yield to baseness...
To avenge himself he hath no longer time; Through the great press most gallantly he strikes, He br...