but let me, if I can, save Hellas.AchillesHeroic spirit! I can say no more to this, since you are so minded; for yours is a noble resolve; why should not one speak the truth? Yet I will speak, for you will perhaps change your mind;~~that you may know then what my offer is,~~ I will go and place these arms of mine near the altar, resolved not to permit your death but to prevent; for brave as you are at sight of the knife held at your throat, you will soon avail yourself of what I said.So I will not let you perish through any thoughtlessness of yours, but will go to the goddess with these arms and await your arrival there.Lines 1431-3 are rejected by Monk. Nauck, on Dindorf’s authority, also incloses 1. 1426 and ll. 1429-33 in brackets. Exit Achilles.IphigeniaMother, why so silent, your eyes wet with tears?