ELECTRA: Our folk are hard to please, and love to blame.

[ἨΛΈΚΤΡΑ: δυσάρεστος ἡμῶν καὶ φιλόψογος πόλις.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Electra [Ἠλέκτρα], l. 904 (c. 420 BC) [tr. Coleridge (1938 ed.)]
    (Source)

On her concern that people will criticize her for speaking ill of dead Aegisthus, even though he was complicit in the death of her father, Agamemnon.

(Source (Greek)). Alternate translations:

Our city is morose, and prone to slander.
[tr. Wodhull (1809)]

Our citizens are hard to please, and love to blame.
[tr. Coleridge (1891)]

Our city is hard to please and fond of slander.
[tr. Buckley (1892)]

Our folk be ill to please, and censure-prone.
[tr. Way (1896)]

Our city gives
Quick blame; and little love have men for me.
[tr. Murray (1905)]

The city has an ill will towards us. Argos will shun us.
[tr. Theodoridis (2006)]

Still, the city
is hard to please and loves to criticize.
[tr. Johnston (2009)]

Our state is hard to please and loves complaints.
[tr. @sentantiq (2020)]


 
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