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Clytemnestra
[1165] O children, by the gods, do not kill your mother. Chorus
sung
Do you hear her cries within the house? sung
Clytemnestra
O God! Ah me! Chorus
I also wail for you, overpowered by your children. sung
Truly the god deals out justice, whenever it befalls. [1170] You have suffered cruelly, unhappy one, yet you did unholy things to your husband.
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 2. Electra, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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