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. Her father, he that begot her, is on the point of slaying your daughter with his own hand.
Clytemnestra
  1. How? That for your story, old man! you are mad.
Old man
  1. Severing with a sword the hapless girl’s white throat.
Clytemnestra
  1. Ah, alas for me! Does my husband happen to have gone mad?
Old man
  1. No; he is sane, except where you and your daughter are concerned; there he is mad.