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. Who are you, and why have you come to the mustering of the Danaids—you, a woman, to a fenced camp of men?
Clytemnestra
  1. I am the daughter of Leda; my name is Clytemnestra; and my husband king Agamemnon.
Achilles
  1. Well and shortly answered on all important points,
  2. but it is shameful for me to stand talking to women.
Clytemnestra
  1. Stay; why seek to escape? give me your hand, a prelude to a happy marriage.