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. No, forbidding it, for your lord was then in his sober senses.
Clytemnestra
  1. How comes it then, if you were really bringing me a letter, that you do not now deliver it into my hands?
Old man
  1. Menelaus snatched it from me, he who caused this trouble.
Clytemnestra
  1. Do you hear that, son of Peleus, the Nereid’s child?
Achilles
  1. I have been listening to the tale of your sufferings, and I do not bear my own lightly.