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Yes, so wasted with sorrow that I sigh for it.
Electra
And my head and hair, close shaven as if by a Scythian’s razor.
Orestes
Your brother and your dead father perhaps gnaw at your heart.
Electra
Alas! For what is dearer to me than they?
Orestes
Ah! What are you to your brother, do you think?
Electra
He is far away, not here to be my friend.
Orestes
Why are you living here, far from the city?
Electra
I am married, stranger; a deadly match.
Orestes
I pity your brother. Is your husband a Mycenaean?
Electra
Not one to whom my father ever hoped to give me.
Orestes
Tell me so that I may hear and inform your brother.
Electra
I live in his house, at a distance from the city.
Orestes
A ditch-digger or a herdsman is worthy of the house.
Electra
He is a man poor but noble, and respectful to me.
Orestes
What is this respect that your husband has?
Electra
He has never dared to touch me in bed.
Orestes
Does he hold some form of religious chastity, or does he think you unworthy?
Electra
He did not think himself worthy to insult my family.
Orestes
And how was he not delighted to make such a marriage?
Electra
He thinks the person who gave me did not have that right, stranger.
Orestes
I understand; he fears that he may someday be punished by Orestes.
Electra
He does fear that, but he is also a virtuous man.
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Orestes
Ah! You have described a noble man, and he must be treated well.
Electra
Yes, if ever the one now absent comes home.
Orestes
But did your mother, who gave you birth, endure this?
Electra
Women love their husbands, stranger, not their children.
Orestes
Why did Aegisthus insult you in this way?
Electra
He planned for me to bear powerless children, when he gave me to such a man.
Orestes
So that you might not bear sons to punish him, of course?

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