Euripides' IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS Complete

Translated by R. Potter.

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Orestes: We in our race are happy; but our life,
My sister, by misfortunes is unhappy.

Iphigenia: I was, I know, unhappy, when the sword
My father, frantic, pointed at my neck.

Orestes: Ah me! methinks ev'n now I see thee there.

Iphigenia: When to Achilles, brother, not a bride,
I to the sacrifice by guile was led,
And tears and groans the altar compass'd round.

Orestes: Alas, the lavers there!

Iphigenia: I mourn'd the deed
My father dared; unlike a father's love;
Cruel, unlike a father's love, to me.

Orestes: Ill deeds succeed to ill: if thou hadst slain
Thy brother, by some god impell'd, what griefs
Must have been thine at such a dreadful deed!

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