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Libation Bearers (415-425)

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But when hope once again lifts and strengthens me, it puts away my distress and dawns brightly on me.
418
Electra
To what could we more fittingly appeal than to those very miseries we have endured from the woman herself who bore us?
She may fawn upon us, but they are past all soothing. For like a fierce-hearted wolf the temper we have acquired from our mother is implacable.
423
Chorus
On my breast I beat[*] an Arian[*] dirge in just the same fashion as a Cissian[*] wailing woman.
With clenched fists, raining blows thick and fast, my outstretched hands could be seen descending from above, from far above, now on this side, now on that, till my battered and wretched head resounded with the strokes.

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