What! have you found me a new home, father?AgamemnonEnough of this! it is not for girls to know such things.IphigeniaPlease hurry home from Troy, father, as soon as you have triumphed there.AgamemnonThere is a sacrifice I have first to offer here.IphigeniaYes, it is your duty to heed religion with aid of holy rites.Monk interprets in a matter of religion thou must consult the priests. Paley inclines to the view that ll. 674-7 are interpolated.AgamemnonYou will witness it, for you will be standing near the libations.IphigeniaAm I to lead the dance then round the altar, father?AgamemnonI count you happier than myself because you know nothing. Go within—it is wrong for maidens to be seen—after you have given me your hand and a kiss,on the eve of your lengthy sojourn far from your father’s side.Breast, cheek, and golden hair! ah, how grievous you have found Helen and the Phrygians’ city! I can speak no more; the tears come welling to my eyes, the moment I touch you.Go into the house. Exit Iphigenia.Agamemnon turns to Clytemnestra. I beg your pardon, daughter of Leda, if I showed excessive grief at the thought of giving my daughter to Achilles; for though we are sending her to taste of bliss, still it wrings a parent’s heart, when he, the father who has toiled so hard for them,commits his children to the homes of strangers.ClytemnestraI am not so senseless; But I think I will go through this as well, when I lead the girl from the chamber to the sound of the marriage hymn; so I do not chide you; but custom will combine with time to make the smart grow less.As for him, to whom you have betrothed our daughter, I know his name, it is true, but want to learn his lineage and the land of his birth.AgamemnonThere was one Aegina, the daughter of Asopus.ClytemnestraWho wedded her? Some mortal or a god?AgamemnonZeus, and she bore Aeacus, the prince of Oenone.The old name of Aegina.ClytemnestraWhat son of Aeacus secured his father’s halls?AgamemnonPeleus, who wedded the daughter of Nereus.