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The Chorus of Argive Maidens enters quietly. The following lines between Electra and the Chorus are chanted responsively.
Chorus
[140] Hush, hush! let your footsteps fall lightly! not a sound! Electra
Go further from his couch, further, I beseech you! Chorus
There, I obey. Electra
[145] Ah, ah! Speak like the breath of a slender reed-pipe, my dear, I pray. Chorus
See, how soft and low I drop my voice. Electra
Yes, do so; approach now, softly, softly! [150] Give me an account of why you have come here. For at last he has lain down, and sleeps.
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 2. Orestes, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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