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. whenever the god’s resistless prophecies inspire her.
Chorus
  1. And on the towers of Troy and round her walls shall Trojans stand, when sea-borne troops
  2. with brazen shields row in on shapely ships to the channels of the Simois, eager to take Helen, the sister of that heavenly pair whom Zeus begot, from Priam, and bear her back to Hellas by toil
  3. of Achaean shields and spears.
Chorus
  1. The son of Atreus, encircling Pergamus, the Phrygians’ town, with murderous war