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. By itself, or did an earthquake turn it?
Iphigenia
  1. By itself; it closed up its eyes.
Thoas
  1. What was the reason? Was it the uncleanness of the strangers?
Iphigenia
  1. That was the reason, and nothing else; for they have done dreadful things.
Thoas
  1. What, have they killed one of the barbarians on the shore?