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But the Argives will crown you,
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wreathing the lovely tresses of your hair, like a pure, dappled
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heifer brought from some rocky cave, and staining with blood your human throat;
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though you were never reared among the piping and whistling of herdsmen, but at your mother’s side, to be decked as the bride of a son of Inachus.
3
Where now does the face of modesty
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or virtue have any strength?
4
seeing that godlessness holds sway, and virtue is neglected by men and thrust behind them,
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lawlessness over law prevailing, and mortals no
5
longer making common cause to keep the jealousy of gods from reaching them.
1095
But the Argives will crown you,
1
wreathing the lovely tresses of your hair, like a pure, dappled
2
heifer brought from some rocky cave, and staining with blood your human throat;
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though you were never reared among the piping and whistling of herdsmen, but at your mother’s side, to be decked as the bride of a son of Inachus.
3
Where now does the face of modesty
1085
or virtue have any strength?
4
seeing that godlessness holds sway, and virtue is neglected by men and thrust behind them,
1090
lawlessness over law prevailing, and mortals no
5
longer making common cause to keep the jealousy of gods from reaching them.
1095
Iphigenia in Aulis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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