410 BC ELECTRA by Sophocles translated by R. C. Jebb CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ORESTES, son of Aga...
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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...
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...
That Charles holds, whose beard is white with age! For this sword's sake sorrow upon me weighs, Ra...
Which by the reins two Sarrazins do lead; Those messengers have wrapped them in their weeds, To th...
AJAX The slayer stands so that his edge may cleave Most surely (if there be leisure for such thoug...
Now my honour is turned into decline!" Charle swoons again, he cannot stand upright. AOI. CCVII ...
LEADER Yes, he is dead, Teucer: of that be sure. TEUCER Alas, how then can I endure my fate! LEA...
Naimes the Duke the seventh next prepares Of Peitevins and barons from Alverne; Forty thousand che...
MENELAUS He loathed me, and I him, as well you know. TEUCER Because to defraud him you intrigued ...
To avenge himself he hath no longer time; Through the great press most gallantly he strikes, He br...