Scaife ATLAS

Orestes (1258-1311)

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Let us make haste and go on; I will keep careful watch upon this road towards the east.

Second Semi-Chorus

And I on this one, that leads westward.

Electra

Throw a glance sideways.

Chorus

Here and there, then we are looking back again,

as you tell us.

1266

Electra

Cast your eyes around, let them see everything, through your tresses.

First Semi-Chorus

Who is that on the road? Who is this

country-man wandering round your house?

Electra

Ah! friends, we are ruined; he will at once reveal to our enemies the armed ambush.

Second Semi-Chorus

(Reconnoitring. Calm your fears; the road is not occupied, as you think, my dear.

Electra

(Turning to the other watchers.) Well? Is your side still secure? Give me a good report, if the space before the court-yard is deserted.

First Semi-Chorus

All goes well here; look to your own watch, for no Danaid is approaching us.

Second Semi-Chorus

Your report agrees with mine; there is no noise here either.

Electra

Well then, I will listen in the gateway.

Chorus

(Calling through the door.) You within the house, why are you delaying to spill your victim’s blood,

now that all is quiet?

1286

Electraspoken

They do not hear; alas for my troubles! Can it be that her beauty has blunted their swords?

sung

Soon some Argive in full armor, hurrying

to her rescue, will attack the palace.

spoken

Keep a better look-out; it is not a contest of sitting still; turn about, some here, some there.

Chorussung

I am looking everywhere in turn along the road.

Helenwithin

Oh, Pelasgian Argos! I am being foully murdered.

Chorus

Did you hear? The men have put their hand to the slaughter.

It is Helen screaming, at a guess.

Electrasung

O eternal might of Zeus, of Zeus, only come to help my friends!

Helenwithin

Menelaus, I am dying, but you do not help me, though you are near.

1302

Electrasung

Slay her, kill her, destroy her! Stab with your twin double-edged swords

the woman who left her father, left her husband, and killed so many of the men of Hellas, slain beside the river-bank, where tears rained down, by the iron darts

all round the eddies of Scamander.

1311

Chorus Leader

Hush! hush! I caught the sound of a foot-fall on the road near the house.

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