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. What right have you to watch my doings? is not this a proof of shamelessness?
Menelaus
  1. My wish to do it gave the spur, for I am no slave to you.
Agamemnon
  1. Infamous! Am I not to be allowed the management of my own house?
Menelaus
  1. No, for you think crooked thoughts, one thing now, another formerly, and something different presently.
Agamemnon
  1. Most exquisite refining on evil themes![*](Reading εὖ κεκόμψευσαι πονηρά with Ruhnken and Monk.) A hateful thing the tongue of cleverness!