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. that Leda bore[*](Reading ἔτεκεν with Musgrave for ἔτυχεν.) you to a winged bird, when Zeus transformed himself there, or whether, in the tablets of the poets, fables have carried these tales to men’s ears
  2. idly, out of season.
Achilles
  1. Where is Achaea’s general? Which of his servants will announce to him that Achilles, the son of Peleus, is at his gates seeking him? For this delay at the Euripus is not the same for all of us;
  2. there are some, for instance, who, bing still unwed, have left their houses desolate and are idling here upon the beach, while others are married but without children;[*](Reading καὶ παῖδας with Musgrave for ἄπαιδες.) so strange the longing for this expedition that has fallen on their hearts by the will of the gods.[*](τῆσδε στρατείας οὐκ ἄνευ θεῶν τινός. Hennig rejects 11. 805-9.)
  3. My own just plea I must declare, and whoever else has any wish will speak for himself. Though I have left Pharsalia, and Peleus, still I linger[*](Kirchhoff marks a lacuna of three lines after 1. 812 on the authority of one MS.; it is possible, however, that the passage is continuous, and an attempt has been made here to treat it as such.) here by reason of these light breezes at the Euripus, restraining my Myrmidons, while they are always pressing on me,