Chorus Leader
But here come the two youths, with tightly bound hands, the new sacrifice for the goddess; silence, my friends. These first-fruits of
Hellas
are indeed
approaching the temple; the herdman did not deliver a false message.
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Lady Artemis, if this city carries out the rites in a way pleasing to you, accept the victims,
which the custom among us declares to be unholy.
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Iphigenia in Tauris. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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