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. Does the dead father’s son live at Argos?
Orestes
  1. He lives, the miserable one, both nowhere and everywhere.
Iphigenia
  1. False dreams, farewell; after all, you were nothing.
Orestes
  1. And those who are called wise divinities are not less false than winged dreams. These is much confusion, both in divine affairs and in human; but only this is a grief to the one who was not foolish, but trusted in the words of prophets
  2. and died—as he died to those that know.