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Iphigenia
Lead me away, the destroyer of
Ilium
’s town and the Phrygians; give me wreaths to cast about me; bring them here; here are my tresses to crown; bring lustral water too.
1475
Dance to Artemis, queen Artemis the blest, around her shrine and altar; for by the blood of my sacrifice I will blot out the oracle,
1480
if it must be.
1485
O mother, lady revered! I will, not give you my tears;
for at the holy rites it is not fitting.
1
1490
Sing with me, maidens, sing the praises of Artemis, whose temple faces
Chalcis
,
where angry spearmen madly chafe, here in the narrow havens of
Aulis
, because of me.
1495
O Pelasgia, land of my birth, and
Mycenae
, my home!
Lead me away, the destroyer of
Ilium
’s town and the Phrygians; give me wreaths to cast about me; bring them here; here are my tresses to crown; bring lustral water too.
1475
Dance to Artemis, queen Artemis the blest, around her shrine and altar; for by the blood of my sacrifice I will blot out the oracle,
1480
if it must be.
1485
O mother, lady revered! I will, not give you my tears;
for at the holy rites it is not fitting.
1
1490
Sing with me, maidens, sing the praises of Artemis, whose temple faces
Chalcis
,
where angry spearmen madly chafe, here in the narrow havens of
Aulis
, because of me.
1495
O Pelasgia, land of my birth, and
Mycenae
, my home!
Iphigenia in Aulis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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