The one you are looking at; don’t confuse me by your talk. Bring me to Argos, my brother, before I die. Take me away from the barbarian land and the sacrifices of the goddess, where I hold the office of killing foreigners.OrestesPylades, what shall I say? Where have we found ourselves?IphigeniaOr I will be a curse to your house.PyladesOrestes?Assigned to Iphigenia in the Coleridge translation.Iphigenia(stopping to address Pylades.)So that you may know the name, hearing it twice.PyladesO gods!IphigeniaWhy do you invoke the gods in my affairs?PyladesNo reason; finish your words; my thoughts were elsewhere. Perhaps, if I question you, I will not arrive at things I cannot believe.IphigeniaTell him that Artemis saved me, by giving a deer in exchange for me; my father sacrificed it, thinking that he drove the sword sharply into me; and she settled me in this land. This is my letter, this is the writing in the tablet.PyladesYou have bound me with an easy oath, and sworn very well. I will not take much time to carry out the oath I swore.See, Orestes, I bring you a tablet from your sister here, and give it to you. OrestesI do receive it, but first I will pass over the letter’s folds to take a joy that is not in words.(Approaching to embrace Iphigenia.)My dearest sister, with what astonishment and delight I hold you in my unbelieving arms, after learning these marvels!Chorus LeaderStranger, you are wrongly defiling the attendant of the goddess, by putting your hands on her robe that should not be touched.OrestesMy own sister, born from my father Agamemnon, do not turn away from me, when you hold your brother and thought you never would!IphigeniaYou are my brother? Stop this talk! He is well known in Argos and Nauplia.OrestesUnhappy girl, your brother is not there.