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Orestes
Take and hide the limbs of our mother beneath a robe, and close the wounds. Turning to the corpse
Ah! You gave birth to your own murderers. Electra
Covering the corpse
[1230] There, I am putting this cloak over the one loved and not loved. Chorus
An end of great troubles for the house.
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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