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. No, but fear of the Furies drives me out of the land.
Iphigenia
  1. That was the madness that they reported there on the shore?
Orestes
  1. That was not the first time that I was seen to be wretched.
Iphigenia
  1. I know; the goddesses were driving you for the sake of your mother.
Orestes
  1. So as to put a bloody bit in my mouth.