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. Yes, and that those maidens at home should not be left alone.
Clytemnestra
  1. They are well guarded in their maiden bowers.
Agamemnon
  1. Obey.
Clytemnestra
  1. No, by the goddess-queen of Argos!
  2. Go, manage matters out of doors; but in the house it is my place to decide what is proper for maidens at their wedding.[*](This line is rejected by Monk as spurious; Hermann proposes to read νυμφίοισι παρθένων, and without some such emendation it is diificult to find any meaning in it.)