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. What is it you say? I give you my hand? To lay a finger where I have no right, I could never meet Agamemnon’s eye.
Clytemnestra
  1. The best of rights you have, seeing it is my child you will wed, O son of the sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus.
Achilles
  1. What wedding do you speak of? Words fail me, lady; can your wits have gone astray and are you inventing this?
Clytemnestra
  1. All men are naturally shy in the presence of new relations,
  2. when these remind[*](μεμνημένους, so Hermann and Dindorf; if μεμνημένοις be retained from the MSS., the meaning must be when they call their marriage to mind; the latter is preferred by Kirchhoff and Monk.) them of their wedding.