Euripides' IPHIGENIA AT AULIS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Came too the revel-rout of Centaurs, mounted on horses, to the feast
of the gods and the mixing-bowl of Bacchus, leaning on fir-trees,
with wreaths of green foliage round their heads; and loudly cried
the prophet Chiron, skilled in arts inspired by Phoebus; "Daughter
of Nereus, thou shalt bear a son"-whose name he gave-"a dazzling light
to Thessaly; for he shall come with an army of spearmen to the far-famed
land of Priam, to set it in a blaze, his body cased in a suit of golden
mail forged by Hephaestus, a gift from his goddess-mother, even from
Thetis who bore him."

Then shed the gods a blessing on the marriage of the high-born bride,
who was first of Nereus' daughters, and on the wedding of Peleus.
But thee, will Argives crown, wreathing the lovely tresses of thy
hair, like a dappled mountain hind brought from some rocky cave or
a heifer undefiled, and staining with blood thy human throat; though
thou wert never reared like these amid the piping and whistling of
herdsmen, but at thy mother's side, to be decked one day by her as
the bride of a son of Inachus. Where now does the face of modesty
or virtue avail aught? seeing that godlessness holds sway, and virtue
is neglected by men and thrust behind them, lawlessness o'er law prevailing,
and mortals no longer making common cause to keep the jealousy of
gods from reaching them.

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