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. 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.