id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt euripides-orestes-1679 euripides-orestes-1679 .txt text/plain 6930 657 91 myself Electra; also a son Orestes; all of that one accursed mother, HELEN Thou hast told the truth, but thy telling is not kind to me. "Helen, thy sister, sends thee these libations as her gift, fearing LEADER OF THE CHORUS My daughter Electra, from thy near station there ELECTRA Menelaus, thy father's brother, is arrived; in Nauplia his ELECTRA Lie still, poor sufferer, on thy couch; thine eye sees none of thy inquiry, Menelaus; this is Orestes. MENELAUS How wild the look thy unkempt hair gives thee, poor wretch! "Thou must die; it is thy craven husband that will slay thee, because ORESTES Well, if thou art anxious to know, I intend to slay thy daughter. MENELAUS After slaying Helen, art thou bent on adding another murder? ORESTES Ask the gods for her; but thy daughter I will slay. ORESTES Well, art thou? ORESTES Hail to thee, prophetic Loxias, for these thy utterances! ./cache/euripides-orestes-1679.txt ./txt/euripides-orestes-1679.txt