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. And do you then have tears streaming from your eyes?
Agamemnon
  1. Yes, for long is the absence from each other, that awaits us.
Iphigenia
  1. I do not know, dear father, I do not know of what you are speaking.[*](This line is corrupt, though the sense, so far, is preserved. Dindorf suspects 11. 652-5, and it certainly is difficult to see the connection of 1. 652 with what precedes. Paley suggests that several lines have been lost.)
Agamemnon
  1. You are moving my pity all the more by speaking so sensibly.
Iphigenia
  1. My words shall turn to senselessness if that will cheer you more.