[Meaning he/she/it] stands before. Sophocles [sc. uses the word]. Electra says: "but most of my hopeless life has already left me, [and] I no longer have enough strength. I am wasting away without parents; no dear husband protects me. Rather, I manage the house of my father as if some unworthy metic."[1] That is, I lived most of my life in misfortunes; and the greater part of my life, she is saying, has left me, who was never in good hope; for up to this point now no part of vengeance for Agamemnon has been accomplished. [I am someone] whom no friend protects, but everyone is being standoffish [around me in my] misfortunes -- or this: "friends get out of the way of a man who is suffering evil."[2]