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. but virtue is always manifest. Likewise the training that come of education conduces greatly to virtue; for not only is modesty wisdom, but it has also the rare grace[*](ἐξαλλάσσουσαν χάριν. Liddell and Scott render as above. Paley follows Hermann in rendering a compensating pleasure. The whole of this chorus is so full, however, of corruption, and possibly interpolation, that it is not unlikely that this phrase was not of Euripides’ coining.)
  2. of seeing by its better judgment what is right; whereby a glory, ever young, is shed over life by reputation. A great thing it is to hunt virtue, for women when they love
  3. secretly; while in men, an inborn sense of order, shown in countless ways,[*](Reading κόσμος ἐνὼν ὁ μυριπληθὴς with Markland, but here again it is hopeless to recover the true reading.) adds to a city’s greatness.
Chorus
  1. You came, O Paris, to the place where you were reared to herd the cows
  2. among the white heifers of Ida, piping in foreign strain and breathing on your reeds an echo of the Phrygian airs Olympus played. Full-uddered cows were browsing at the spot