Go into the house. Exit Iphigenia. Agamemnon turns to Clytemnestra. I beg your pardon, daughter of Leda, if I showed excessive grief at the thought of giving my daughter to Achilles; for though we are sending her to taste of bliss, still it wrings a parent’s heart, when he, the father who has toiled so hard for them,commits his children to the homes of strangers.ClytemnestraI am not so senseless; But I think I will go through this as well, when I lead the girl from the chamber to the sound of the marriage hymn; so I do not chide you; but custom will combine with time to make the smart grow less.As for him, to whom you have betrothed our daughter, I know his name, it is true, but want to learn his lineage and the land of his birth.AgamemnonThere was one Aegina, the daughter of Asopus.ClytemnestraWho wedded her? Some mortal or a god?AgamemnonZeus, and she bore Aeacus, the prince of Oenone.The old name of Aegina.ClytemnestraWhat son of Aeacus secured his father’s halls?AgamemnonPeleus, who wedded the daughter of Nereus.ClytemnestraWith the god’s consent, or when he had taken her in spite of gods?AgamemnonZeus betrothed her, and her guardian gave consent.ClytemnestraWhere did he marry her? in the billows of the sea?AgamemnonIn Chiron’s home, at sacred Pelion’s foot.ClytemnestraWhat! the abode ascribed to the race of Centaurs?AgamemnonIt was there the gods celebrated the marriage feast of Peleus.ClytemnestraDid Thetis or his father train Achilles?AgamemnonChiron brought him up, to prevent his learning the ways of the wicked.ClytemnestraAh! wise the teacher, still wiser the one who gave his son.AgamemnonSuch is the future husband of your daughter.ClytemnestraA blameless lord; but what city in Hellas is his?AgamemnonHe dwells on the banks of the river Apidanus, in the borders of Phthia.ClytemnestraWill you conveyἀπάξεις, so Dobree for ἀπάξει. our daughter there?AgamemnonHe who takes her to himself will see to that.ClytemnestraHappiness attend the pair! Which day will he marry her?AgamemnonAs soon as the full moon comes to give its blessingClytemnestraHave you already offered the goddess a sacrifice to usher in the maiden’s marriage?AgamemnonI am about to do so; that is the very thing I was engaged in.ClytemnestraAnd then will you celebrate the marriage feast afterwards?AgamemnonYes, when I have offered a sacrifice required by the gods of me.