Electra
Cast your eyes around, let them see everything, through your tresses.
First Semi-Chorus
Who is that on the road? Who is this
country-man wandering round your house?
1270
Electra
Ah! friends, we are ruined; he will at once reveal to our enemies the armed ambush.
Second Semi-Chorus
(Reconnoitring. Calm your fears; the road is not occupied, as you think, my dear.
Electra
(Turning to the other watchers.) Well? Is your side still secure? Give me a good report, if the space before the court-yard is deserted.
1275
First Semi-Chorus
All goes well here; look to your own watch, for no Danaid is approaching us.
Second Semi-Chorus
Your report agrees with mine; there is no noise here either.
1280
Electra
Well then, I will listen in the gateway.
Chorus
(Calling through the door.) You within the house, why are you delaying to spill your victim’s blood,
now that all is quiet?
1285
Orestes. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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