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Iphigenia Among the Tauri (834-915)

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I left you still a baby,
young in the arms of your nurse, young in the house. O my soul, you have been more fortunate than words can say.
I have come upon things that are beyond wonder, far from speech.
Orestes
For the rest of time, may we be fortunate with each other!
Iphigenia
O my friends, I have found an extraordinary joy; I am afraid that he will fly from my hands into the air.
O Cyclopean hearths; o my country, dear Mycenae, I thank you for his life, for his nourishment, because you brought up this light of the house, my brother.
Orestes
We are fortunate in our family, but in our circumstances, my sister, we were born to be unfortunate in life.
Iphigenia
I was unhappy, I know, when my wretched father put the sword to my throat.
Orestes
Alas! Though I was not present, I seem to see you there.
Iphigenia
O brother, when I was brought, not a bride, to the treacherous bed of Achilles;
but beside the altar there were tears and wails. Alas for the libations there!
Orestes
I also mourned for the daring act of our father.
Iphigenia
Fatherless was the fate I received, fatherless.
One thing comes from another, by divine fortune.
Orestes
Yes, if you had killed your brother, unhappy one!
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Iphigenia
O wretched, in my dreadful daring!
How dreadful were the things I endured, alas, my brother! By only a little you escaped an unholy death, slain by my hands. But how will these things end? What fortune will assist me?
What way will I find to send you from this city, from slaughter, to your native Argos,
before the sword draws near to your blood? This is your business, unhappy soul, to find out. On the dry land, not in a ship?
But if you go on foot, through trackless paths and barbarian tribes, you will draw near to death.
But through the dark rocks of the narrow passage is a long way for flight by ship.
I am unhappy, unhappy!
Who, either god or mortal or something unexpected, might accomplish a way that is no way, and reveal a release from troubles for the only two children of the house of Atreus?
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Chorus Leader
It is marvelous and surpasses a fable, this event that I myself have have seen and shall relate, not as hearsay.
Pylades
When friends come into the sight of friends, Orestes, it is reasonable to embrace; but we must leave off wailing and turn to other matters:
how we shall get the glorious name of safety and leave the foreign land. For wise men take opportunities, and do not overstep their fate to get other pleasures.
Orestes
Well said; but I think fortune will take care
of that with us; when one is eager, divine strength is likely to be greater.
Iphigenia
(to Pylades.) Let nothing hold me back; nor will it prevent me speaking before I first find out Electra’s fate, for you are all dear to me.
Orestes
She lives with this man, (pointing to Pylades) and has a happy life.

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