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Is it on Perseus’ citadel you call, that town Cyclopean workmen built?
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Is it on Perseus’ citadel you call, that town Cyclopean workmen built?
1500
Iphigenia
To be a light to
Hellas
did you rear me, and so I do not say No to death.
To be a light to
Hellas
did you rear me, and so I do not say No to death.
Chorus
You are right; no fear that fame will ever desert you!
You are right; no fear that fame will ever desert you!
Iphigenia
Hail to you, bright lamp of day and light of Zeus! A different life, a different lot is henceforth mine. Farewell I bid you, light beloved!
Exit Iphigenia. .
1505
Hail to you, bright lamp of day and light of Zeus! A different life, a different lot is henceforth mine. Farewell I bid you, light beloved!
Exit Iphigenia. .
1505
Chorus
1
Behold the maiden on her way, the destroyer of
Ilium
’s town and the Phrygians, with garlands twined about her head, and drops of lustral water on her, soon to be sprinkled with her gushing blood
1510
the altar of a murderous goddess, when her shapely neck is severed.
2
1515
For you fair streams of a father’s pouring and lustral waters are in store, for you
Achaea
’s army is waiting, eager
to reach the citadel of
Ilium
. But let us celebrate Artemis, the daughter of Zeus, queen among the gods, as if upon some happy chance.
1520
O lady revered, delighting in human
sacrifice, send on its way to
Phrygia
’s land the army of the Hellenes, to
Troy
’s abodes of guile, and grant that Agamemnon may wreathe his head with deathless fame,
1525
a crown of fairest glory for the spearmen of
Hellas
.
1530
3
Behold the maiden on her way, the destroyer of
Ilium
’s town and the Phrygians, with garlands twined about her head, and drops of lustral water on her, soon to be sprinkled with her gushing blood
1510
the altar of a murderous goddess, when her shapely neck is severed.
2
1515
For you fair streams of a father’s pouring and lustral waters are in store, for you
Achaea
’s army is waiting, eager
to reach the citadel of
Ilium
. But let us celebrate Artemis, the daughter of Zeus, queen among the gods, as if upon some happy chance.
1520
O lady revered, delighting in human
sacrifice, send on its way to
Phrygia
’s land the army of the Hellenes, to
Troy
’s abodes of guile, and grant that Agamemnon may wreathe his head with deathless fame,
1525
a crown of fairest glory for the spearmen of
Hellas
.
1530
Iphigenia in Aulis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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