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. around her stone-built towers, dragging Paris’s head backward to cut his throat and sacking the city[*](The words πόλισμα Τροίας are omitted by Monk as a gloss on πόλιν. Hartung regards 11. 773-83 as interpolated, and there is certainly much in them that Euripides can scarcely have written; both Dindorf and Kirchhoff reject large portions of what follows 1. 773.) from roof to base, shall be a cause of many tears to maids and
  2. Priam’s wife. And Helen, the daughter of Zeus, shall[*](ἐσεῖται. Hermann gives εἴσεται, shall know to her cost.) weep in bitter grief because she left her lord.
  3. Never may there appear to me or to my children’s children
  4. the prospect which the wealthy Lydian ladies and Phrygia’s brides will have[*](Perhaps Tyrrwhitt’s σχήσουσι should be read for στήσουσι.) as at their looms they converse:
  5. Tell me, who will pluck me away from my ruined country, tightening his grasp on lovely tresses till the tears flow? it is all through you, the offspring of the long-necked swan; if indeed it is a true report