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. You are mad! What do we have to do the the flight of the strangers? Go as quickly as you can to the ruler’s door!
Messenger
  1. No! Not until this interpreter brings word if the king is inside or not. Ho there! Unbar the doors—I am speaking to those within—
  2. and inform the master that I am at the gate with a burden of bad news.
Thoas
  1. (appearing at the temple door.)Who is raising this clamor at the temple of the goddess, striking at the gates and sending his noise within?
Messenger
  1. Ah! These women told me that you were outside; they would have driven me away from the temple,