410 BC IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS by Euripides translated by Robert Potter CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY IPHI...
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CLYTAEMNESTRA Thou mayst do so, daughter; for of all the children I have born, thou hast ever love...
maidens at their wedding. Exit. AGAMEMNON Woe is me! my efforts are baffled; I am disappointed in ...
CLYTAEMNESTRA How comes it then, if thou wert really bringing me a letter, that thou dost not now ...
Led me in secret to his bed. ION Speak on; Thy words import some glorious fortune to me. CREUSA ...
Shoved from the way: it is not to be borne, When every insolent and worthless wretch Makes you giv...
Is this child yet to come, or did the god Declare one now in being? LEADER One advanced To manho...
TUTOR Dead! and the ungrateful Phoebus gives no aid? CREUSA None: in the house of Pluto a young g...
For never shall my queen this torment know; Ne'er while she draws this vital breath, Brook in her ...
Both that and this, anxious for one response. ION For the earth's fruits consult you, or for child...
Shall we, who plann'd the deathful deed, Be caught within the toils we spread, While justice claim...
Propitious thus, the answer of the god Would I receive: meanwhile, these laurel boughs Bear round ...
These tokens. To do pleasure to the god, I nurtured thee, my son; now to thy hand Restore what was...
XUTHUS At that we marvel both. ION Who is my mother? XUTHUS That I cannot say. ION Did not th...
the horses gnashed the forged bits between their teeth and bore him wildly on, regardless of their ...