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. And is there no one to say a word against them?
Achilles
  1. Indeed I was in some danger myself from the tumult.
Clytemnestra
  1. In danger of what, stranger?.
Achilles
  1. Of being stoned.
Clytemnestra
  1. Surely not for trying to save my daughter?
Achilles
  1. The very reason.
Clytemnestra
  1. Who would have dared to lay a finger on you?
Achilles
  1. All the men of Hellas.
Clytemnestra
  1. Were not your Myrmidon warriors at your side?
Achilles
  1. They were the first who turned against me.
Clytemnestra
  1. My child! we are lost, it seems.
Achilles
  1. They taunted me as the man whom marriage had enslaved.
Clytemnestra
  1. And what did you answer them?
Achilles
  1. Not to kill the one I meant to wed—
Clytemnestra
  1. Justly so.
Achilles
  1. The wife her father promised me.
Clytemnestra
  1. Yes, and sent to fetch from Argos.
Achilles
  1. But I was overcome by clamorous cries.
Clytemnestra
  1. Truly the mob is a dire mischief.
Achilles
  1. But I will help you for all that.