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Orestes
O Earth, and Zeus who sees all mortal acts, look at these loathsome bloody deeds, these two bodies
lying on the earth at the blow from my hand, atonement for my suffering . . .
1180
O Earth, and Zeus who sees all mortal acts, look at these loathsome bloody deeds, these two bodies
lying on the earth at the blow from my hand, atonement for my suffering . . .
1180
Electra
Too many tears, my brother, and I am the cause. Unhappy, that I came to fiery rage against this woman, who was my mother!
Too many tears, my brother, and I am the cause. Unhappy, that I came to fiery rage against this woman, who was my mother!
Chorus
Alas for your fate; you gave birth to unbearable pain, and you suffered it, miserably and beyond, from your children. Yet you have rightly paid for their father’s murder.
1185
Alas for your fate; you gave birth to unbearable pain, and you suffered it, miserably and beyond, from your children. Yet you have rightly paid for their father’s murder.
1185
Electra. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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