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Quotation from Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes by Sophocles
“Then bright was thy departure, whom I now Bear lightly, a mere nothing, in my hands”
Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes, Electra, the urn scene, trans. Lewis Campbell (1883)
Holding the urn she believes contains Orestes' ashes, Electra contrasts the child she saved with the weightless remains she has been given.
Citation: "Then bright was thy departure, whom I now Bear lightly, a mere nothing, in my hands" — Sophocles, Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes, Electra, the urn scene, trans. Lewis Campbell (1883). (id sophocles-ajax-electra-trachiniae-philoctetes-q3)
