<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg006.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="episode"><sp><l n="145"><q type="spoken" rend="merge">So I interrupt my prayer for good to offer them this prayer for evil.  But be a bearer of blessings for us to the upper world, with the help of the gods and Earth and Justice crowned with victory.</q><stage rend="italic">She pours out the libations</stage><milestone unit="para"/>Such are my prayers, and over them I pour out these libations.</l><l n="150">It is right for you to crown them with lamentations, raising your voices in a chant for the dead.
            </l></sp><milestone n="152" unit="card"/><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="152">Pour forth your tears, splashing as they fall for our fallen lord, to accompany this protection against evil, this charm for the good</l><l n="155">against the loathsome pollution.  Hear me, oh hear me, my honored lord, out of the darkness of your spirit.<note anchored="true" n="157" resp="Smyth">Or <foreign xml:lang="grc">ἀμαυρᾶς</foreign> may mean <gloss>feeble,</gloss> <gloss>helpless,</gloss> to contrast the spirit of the dead with that of the living.  But cp. 323.</note>
               
                  <milestone unit="para"/>Woe, woe, woe!  Oh for</l><l n="160">a man mighty with the spear to deliver our house, an Ares, brandishing in the fight the springing Scythian bow and wielding his hilted sword in close combat.  <stage rend="italic">As they conclude, Electra discovers the lock of Orestes’ hair</stage>  
               
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