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Electra (827-871)

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Ah, me, ah, me!
Chorus
My child, why do you weep?
Electra
Oh!
Chorus
Give no cry of bad omen!
Electra
You will break my heart!
Chorus
How do you mean?
Electra
If you suggest that I keep hope for those who have surely passed to Hades,
you will trample even harder upon me as I waste away.
836
Chorus
No, for I know that the prince Amphiaraus was ensnared by a woman’s chain of gold and swallowed up. And now beneath the earth—
Electra
ah, me, ah, me!
Chorus
—He reigns supreme with the wits of the living.
Electra
ah, me!
Chorus
ah, me, indeed! For the murderess—
Electra
Was slain.
Chorus
Yes.
Electra
I know it; I know it. For a champion arose to avenge the grieving dead. But for me no champion remains: he who yet remained has been snatched clean away.
849
Chorus
Unhappy are you, unhappy your destiny!
Electra
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
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.
860
Chorus
Nature ordains death as the destiny of all mortals.
Electra
What, a death like the one which that ill-fated one died beneath a race of swift hooves, entangled in the cutting, dragging reins?
Chorus
The mutilation is beyond thought!
Electra
Yes, so it is, when in foreign soil, without being tended by my hands—
Chorus
Ah, no!
Electra
—he has been buried not receiving from me either burial
or lamentation.
871
Enter Chrysothemis, from the right.
Chrysothemis
I am pursued by joy, dear sister, and I disregard seemliness in order to come with speed. I bring joyful news to relieve your former troubles and grief.

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