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. Lady, I have never courted your daughter, nor have the sons of Atreus ever mentioned marriage to me.
Clytemnestra
  1. What can it mean? Your turn now to marvel at my words, for yours are very strange to me.
Achilles
  1. Hazard a guess; that we can both do in this matter; for it may be we are both correct in our statements.[*](i.e., we may both be right, but at cross purposes. Markland proposes ἐφευδόμεθα, we may both have been deceived in what we say.)
Clytemnestra
  1. What! have I suffered such indignity? The marriage I am courting has no reality it seems; I am ashmed of it.
Achilles
  1. Some one perhaps has made a mock of you and me;