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 leave my child? Then who will raise her bridal torch?
Agamemnon
  1. I will provide the proper wedding torch.
Clytemnestra
  1. That is not the custom; but you think lightly of these things.
Agamemnon
  1. It is not good for you to be alone among a soldier-crowd.
Clytemnestra
  1. It is good that a mother should give her own child away.