Euripides' IPHIGENIA AT AULIS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Achilles: Who art thou, and wherefore art thou come to the mustering
of the Danai-thou, a woman, to a fenced camp of men?

Clytaemnestra: The daughter of Leda I; my name Clytaemnestra; and
my husband king Agamemnon.

Achilles: Well and shortly answered on all important points! but it
ill befits that I should stand talking to women.

Clytaemnestra: Stay; why seek to fly? Give me thy hand, a prelude
to a happy marriage.

Achilles: What is it thou sayest? I give thee my hand? Were I to lay
a finger where I have no right, I could ne'er meet Agamemnon's eye.

Clytaemnestra: The best of rights hast thou, seeing it is my child
thou wilt wed, O son of the sea-goddess, whom Nereus begat.

Achilles: What wedding dost thou speak of? words fail me, lady; can
thy wits have gone astray and art thou inventing this?

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