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. What reason did she have to kill her husband?
Orestes
  1. Let our mother’s affairs be; nor is it good for you to hear.
Iphigenia
  1. I am silent; does Argos now look to you?
Orestes
  1. Menelaus rules there; I am an exile from my country
Iphigenia
  1. Our uncle has surely not maltreated our afflicted house, has he?