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. But through the dark rocks of the narrow passage is a long way for flight by ship.
  2. I am unhappy, unhappy!
  3. Who, either god or mortal or something unexpected, might accomplish a way that is no way, and reveal a release from troubles for the only two children of the house of Atreus?
Chorus Leader
  1. It is marvelous and surpasses a fable, this event that I myself have have seen and shall relate, not as hearsay.
Pylades
  1. When friends come into the sight of friends, Orestes, it is reasonable to embrace; but we must leave off wailing and turn to other matters: