Electra
To what could we more fittingly appeal than to those very miseries we have endured from the woman herself who bore us?
She may fawn upon us, but they are past all soothing. For like a fierce-hearted wolf the temper we have acquired from our mother is implacable.
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Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1926.
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