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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.
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Chorus
Mighty is the goddess; come then, and borrow from me thick-woven clothes to wear, and goldas a favor to meaccessories to adornment. Do you think to rule over your enemies by tears, if you do not revere the gods?
Honoring the gods not by lamentation but by prayers, you will have good fortune, child.
Electra
No god attends to the voice of the ill-fated one,
or to the slaying of my father long ago. Alas for the dead, and for the living vagabond, who dwells in another land somewhere,
miserably wandering to a slaves hearth, yet born of that renowned father. I myself live in a poor mans house, wasting my life away, an exile from my fathers house,
on the mountain crags. But my mother, with a new husband, makes her home in a bed stained by blood.
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Chorus Leader
Helen, your mothers sister, is the cause of many evils to the Hellenes and to your house.
ElectraCatching sight of Orestes and Pylades
Ah! Women, I have broken off my lament; strangers, who had their lair at the altar, are rising from ambush towards the household. Let us escape the villains by flight, you along the path and I to the house.
Orestes
Stay, poor girl; do not fear my hand.
Electra
O Phoebus Apollo! I beseech you to spare my life.
Orestes
May I kill others more hated than you!
Electra
Go away! Do not touch one whom you must not touch.
Orestes
There is no one I have a better right to touch.
Electra
Then why are you in ambush, with drawn sword, near my house?
Orestes
Wait and hear, and you will soon say the same.
Electra
I am still; in any case, I am yours, since you are the stronger.
Orestes
I have come to bring you word from your brother.
Electra
Oh best of friends! Is he alive or dead?
Orestes
Alive; for I want to tell you the good news first.
Electra
May you be happy, as a reward for your most welcome tidings.
Orestes
I give that blessing for us two to have in common.
Electra
Where does the unhappy one live, in his unhappy exile?
Orestes
He goes miserably about, not following the customs of any one city.
Electra
Surely he does not want for a living, day by day?
Orestes
He has that, but an exile is a helpless man at best.
Electra
What is this message you have come bringing from him?
Orestes
If you are alive, and if so, how you are.
Electra
Well then, you see first of all how withered my body is.

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