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Chorus
[849] Unhappy are you, unhappy your destiny! Electra
[850] How well I know that, all too well, with my life swept through all the months by abundant terrors and horrors! Chorus
We have witnessed the events for which you mourn. Electra
[855] Cease, then, to divert me from it, since no longer— Chorus
What do you say? Electra
—Since I no longer have hope in my brother, the seed of our shared noble line, to aid me.
Sophocles. The Electra of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1894.
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