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. Doesn’t the wave beat against this very temple?
Iphigenia
  1. This requires solitude; and I shall do more.
Thoas
  1. Then where you wish; I do not want to see what should not be seen.
Iphigenia
  1. I must purify the image of the goddess also.
Thoas
  1. Yes, if a stain from the matricide has fallen on it.