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. a relationship of this kind which is bitterness to both.[*](Lines 508-10 are rejected by most editors as an interpolation; omitting them, Agamemnon’s speech goes on naturally at 1. 511. Hernann, retaining them, replaces γε by δὲ and continues them to Agamemnon.) But it is useless, for circumstances compel me to carry out the murderous sacrifice of my daughter.
Menelaus
  1. How so? who will compel you to slay your own?
Agamemnon
  1. The whole Achaean army here assembled.
Menelaus
  1. Not if you send her back to Argos.
Agamemnon
  1. I might do that unnoticed, but there will be another thing I cannot.