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. Alas, I am undone; my eyes can no longer hold their tears.
Old man
  1. If the loss[*](Reading with Wecklein εἴπερ ἄλλ᾽ εἰκὸς. Paley retains the old reading εἴπερ ἀλγεινὸν. Hartung gives οὐ γὰρ ἄλογόν ἐστι. Kirchhoff οὐ γὰρ ἀλλ᾽ εἰκὸς.) of children is painful, shed your tears.
Clytemnestra
  1. From where, old man, do you say you had this news?
Old man
  1. I had started to carry you a letter referring to the former writing.
Clytemnestra
  1. Forbidding or combining to urge my bringing the child to her death?