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. So you have no mind to share this trouble with Hellas?
Agamemnon
  1. No, Hellas is diseased like you, according to some god’s design.
Menelaus
  1. Go boast of your scepter, after betraying your own brother! while[*](Lines 413-41 are regarded by Kirchhoff as the work of a much later age. Nauck incloses them in brackets, but Paley, Monk, and Hermann agree in retaining them as probably genuine.) I will seek some different means and other friends.
Messenger
  1. Agamemnon, lord of Hellas!
  2. I have come and bring you your daughter, whom you call Iphigenia in your home; and her mother, your wife Clytemnestra, is with her, and the child Orestes, a sight to gladden[*](Reading ὥς τι τερφθείης with Hermann for ὥστε; if ὥστε is retained the meaning apparently is therefore, mayst thou rejoice at seeing him, involving rather an awkward parenthesis.) you after your long absence from your home;