She has; it was an unfortunate arrival for one dear to me.IphigeniaAnd where is she? She deserves an ill turn from me also.OrestesShe lives at Sparta with her former bedfellow.IphigeniaCreature hated by Hellas, not by me alone!OrestesI have also had some benefit from the marriage of that woman!IphigeniaHave the Achaeans returned, as reported?OrestesHow you put everything together and ask me all at once!IphigeniaBefore you die, I want to profit by your answers.OrestesQuestion me, since you desire this; I will tell you.IphigeniaHas a certain Calchas, a prophet, come back from Troy?OrestesHe is dead, as the story goes in Mycenae.IphigeniaO goddess, how good that is! What about Odysseus?OrestesHe has not yet returned, but is alive, they say.IphigeniaMay he die and never achieve a return to his country!OrestesDo not pray against that man; all is misery for him.IphigeniaBut is the son of Thetis the Nereid still alive?OrestesHe is not; his marriage at Aulis was in vain.IphigeniaYes, for it was a cheat, as those who experienced it know.OrestesWho are you? How well you ask about Hellas!IphigeniaI am from there; while still a child I was lost.OrestesThen rightly you desire to know what has happened there, lady.IphigeniaWhat about the general, who is said to be happy?OrestesWho? The one I knew was not happy.IphigeniaThere was said to be a certain lord, Agamemnon, son of Atreus.OrestesI do not know; leave this subject, lady.IphigeniaNo, by the gods, but tell me, stranger, to delight me.OrestesThe wretched man is dead, and in addition he destroyed another.IphigeniaDead? By what fate? I am unhappy!OrestesWhy do you mourn for this? It doesn’t concern you, does it?IphigeniaI grieve for his former prosperity.