_Electra in Lyric Monody_. The light, the air, the loathed house and
bed she sleeps on, all are witnesses of her ceaseless misery and woe,
orphaned as she is of a father foully slain. She calls on the Curses,
the Furies and other dread Powers who watch over evil slaughter to send
Orestes, she can no longer bear up with sorrow's great burden cast into
the balance. {120}
_Enter by the Orchestral door Chorus of Argive Maidens to condole with
Electra._