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. on Amphitrite’s surge, where the fifty daughters of Nereus . . . the circular choruses sing,
  2. with wind in the sails, the guiding rudder creaking under the stern, with southern breezes or by the blasts of the west wind,
  3. to the land of many birds, the white strand, Achilles’ lovely race-course, over the Black Sea?
Chorus
  1. Would that, by my mistress’ prayers, Helen, Leda’s dear child,
  2. might happen to leave Troy and come here, where she might die, crowned over her hair by the bloody water,