Iphigenia in Aulis

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. How sensibly you speak! I must act as seems best to you;
  2. but should I fail of my object, where am I to see you again, where? Must I turn my wretched steps and find you ready to champion my distress?
Achilles
  1. I will keep watch to guard you, where occasion calls, that none may see you passing through the army of Danaids
  2. with that scared look. Do not shame your father’s house; for Tyndareus does not deserve not to be ill spoken of, being a mighty man in Hellas.[*](Line 1032 is inclosed in brackets by Nauck.)
Clytemnestra
  1. It will be so.[*](ἔστιν τάδ᾽. So Paley; but others, with Markland, read ἔσται τάδ᾽ i.e., I will do as you say.) Command me; I must play the slave to you. If there are gods, you for your righteous dealing