Iphigenia in Tauris

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.

  1. May I come to the bright race-course, where the sun’s fire goes;
  2. over the chambers of my home, may I cease to flutter the wings on my back. May I take my stand in the dances of glorious marriages, where I stood as a maiden,
  3. twirling about in the dancing bands of other girls, away from my dear mother; rushing on to the contest of charms, the luxuriant strife of hair, I covered my cheeks with the multi-colored veil
  4. and shadowed them with the locks of my hair.
Thoas
  1. Where is the gate-keeper of this temple, the woman of Hellas? Has she already begun the rites on the strangers?