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. Is it for this that you bring the statue outside?
Iphigenia
  1. Yes, to the holy air, to remove it from slaughter.
Thoas
  1. How did you know the blood-pollution of the strangers?
Iphigenia
  1. I questioned them, because the image of the goddess had turned back.
Thoas
  1. Hellas has brought you up to be clever; how well you understood this.