Euripides' IPHIGENIA AT AULIS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Agamemnon: Start then from the bolted gates, and if thou meet the
escort, start them back again, and drive at full speed to the abodes
of the Cyclopes.

Attendant: But tell me, how shall my message find credit with thy
wife or child?

Agamemnon: Preserve the seal which thou bearest on this scroll. Away!
already the dawn is growing grey, lighting the lamp of day yonder
and the fire of the sun's four steeds; help me in my trouble. (Exit
Attendant.) None of mortals is prosperous or happy to the last, for
none was ever born to a painless life. (Exit Agamemnon., Enter
Chorus of Women of Chalcis.)

Chorus: To the sandy beach of sea-coast Aulis I came after a voyage
through the tides of Euripus, leaving Chalcis on its narrow firth,
my city which feedeth the waters of far-famed Arethusa near the sea,
that I might behold the army of the Achaeans and the ships rowed by
those god-like heroes; for our husbands tell us that fair-haired Menelaus
and high-born Agamemnon are leading them to Troy on a thousand ships
in quest of the lady Helen, whom herdsman Paris carried off from the
banks of reedy Eurotas-his guerdon from Aphrodite, when that queen
of Cyprus entered beauty's lists with Hera and Pallas at the gushing
fount.

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