Orestes
Take and hide the limbs of our mother beneath a robe, and close the wounds.
Turning to the corpse Ah! You gave birth to your own murderers.
Electra
Covering the corpse
There, I am putting this cloak over the one loved and not loved.
1230
Chorus
An end of great troubles for the house.
Electra. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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