O Zeus, I behold that which hath not fallen save by the doom of jealous Heaven; but, if Nemesis att...
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Tell what thou canst; a little word hath often marred, or made, men's fortunes. CHRYSOTHEMIS 'Tis...
to us all, even as we ask! For the rest, though I be silent, I deem that thou, a god, must know it;...
Robbers, he told us, not one bandit but A troop of knaves, attacked and murdered him. OEDIPUS Did...
Alas indeed! for the murderess- ELECTRA Was slain. CHORUS Yea. ELECTRA I know it, I know it; f...
OEDIPUS Words scare not him who blenches not at deeds. CHORUS But here is one to arraign him. Lo,...
death! What mightst thou not have wrought? ELECTRA My nature was the same then, but my mind less r...
TEIRESIAS This day shall be thy birth-day, and thy grave. OEDIPUS Thou lov'st to speak in riddles...
ELECTRA By what that hath been said hast thou perceived this? ORESTES By seeing thy sufferings, s...
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...
deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by fenced city, or dark, sea-beaten ships. antistrophe 1 ...