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. It is shameful for me to live when you are dead;
  2. I sailed together with you, and I ought to die together with you. For I will seem a coward and base in Argos and Phocis of the many mountain folds. Most will think—for most people are base—that I betrayed you and saved myself to come home alone,
  3. or I plotted your death, in the afflictions of your house, for the sake of your kingdom, since I married your sister and heiress. I fear these things and I am ashamed; and I must breathe my last with you,
  4. be slaughtered with you and consumed on the pyre; because I am your friend and I fear reproach.
Orestes
  1. Hush! I must bear my own ills, and when the grief is single, I will not bear it double. What you call vile and infamous,