Aeschylus's CHOEPHORI (Libation Bearers) Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Electra: I too, from my full heritage restored,
Will pour the lustral streams, what time I pass
Forth as a bride from these paternal halls,
And honour first, beyond all graves, thy tomb.

Orestes: Earth, send my sire to fend me in the fight!

Electra: Give fair-faced fortune, O Persephone!

Orestes: Bethink thee, father, in the laver slain-

Electra: Bethink thee of the net they handselled for thee!

Orestes: Bonds not of brass ensnared thee, father mine.

Electra: Yea, the ill craft of an enfolding robe.

Orestes: By this our bitter speech arise, O sire!

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