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Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Heracleidae (ed. David Kovacs) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Euripides, Phoenissae (ed. E. P. Coleridge) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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The Chorus of Argive Country-Women enter.
Chorus
O Electra, daughter of Agamemnon, I have come to your rustic courtyard. A milk-drinker from Mycenae has come, he has come, a mountain walker; he reports that the Argives are proclaiming a sacrifice for the third day from now, and that all maidens are to go to Hera's temple.
Electra
My unhappy heart beats fast, friends, but not at adornment or gold; nor will I set up choruses with the maidens of Argos and beat my foot in the mazes of the dance. By tears I pass the night; tears are my unhappy care day by day. See if my filthy hair, and the rags of my dress, will be fit for a princess, a daughter of Agamemnon, or for Troy, once taken, which remembers my father.
Orestes
O Zeus, god of my fathers, be also the vanquisher of my enemies—
Electra
And have pity on us; for we have suffered pitiably—
Old man
Yes, indeed, have pity on your own descendants.
Electra
And Hera, you who rule Mycenae's altars—
Orestes
Give us victory, if we are asking for what is right.
Old man
Yes, indeed, give them the right of vengeance for their father.
Orestes
You too, father, living below the earth through an unholy deed—
Electra
And Lady Earth, to whom I give my hands—
Old man
Defend, defend these, your dearest children.
Orestes
Now come and bring with you all the dead as allies.
Electra
Those who destroyed the Trojans in war with you—
Old man
And all who hate the unholy and polluted.
Electra
Do you hear me, you who suffered dreadful things from my mother?
Old man
Your father hears everything, I know; but it is time to be on our way.
Electra
And I tell you therefore that Aegisthus is to die; if you fall dead in the struggle, I am also dead, do