Euripides' IPHIGENIA AT AULIS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Clytaemnestra: I know all; I have heard what thou art bent on doing
to me. Thy very silence and those frequent groans are a confession;
tire not thyself by telling it.

Agamemnon: Lo! I am silent; for, if I tell thee a falsehood, needs
must I add effrontery to misfortune.

Clytaemnestra: Well, listen; for I will now unfold my meaning and
no longer employ dark riddles. In the first place-to reproach thee
first with this-it was not of my own free will but by force that thou
didst take and wed me, after slaying Tantalus, my former husband,
and dashing my babe on the ground alive, when thou hadst torn him
from my breast with brutal violence. Then, when those two sons of
Zeus, who were likewise my brothers, came flashing on horseback to
war with thee, Tyndareus, my aged sire, rescued thee because of thy
suppliant prayers, and thou in turn hadst me to wife. Once reconciled
to thee upon this footing, thou wilt bear me witness I have been a
blameless wife to thee and thy family, chaste in love, an honour to
thy house, that so thy coming in might be with joy and thy going out
with gladness. And 'tis seldom a man secures a wife like this, though
the getting of a worthless woman is no rarity.

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