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Iphigenia at Aulis (850-882)

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pay no heed to it; make light of it.
Clytemnestra
Farewell; I can no longer face you with unfaltering eyes, after being made a liar and suffering undeservedly.
Achilles
It is farewell I bid you too, lady; and I go within the tent to seek your husband.
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Old mancalling through the tent door.
Stranger of the race of Aeacus, stay awhile! Ho there! I mean you, O goddess-born, and you, daughter of Leda.
Achilles
Who is it calling through the half-opened door? What fear his voice betrays!
Old man
A slave; of that I am not proud, for fortune does not permit it.
Achilles
Whose slave are you? not mine; for mine and Agamemnons goods are separate.
Old man
I belong to this lady who stands before the tent, a gift to her from Tyndareus her father.
Achilles
I am waiting; tell me, if you are desirous, why you have stopped me.
Old man
Are you really all alone here at the door?
Achilles
To us alone will you address yourself; come forth from the kings tent.
Old mancoming out.
O Fortune and my own foresight, preserve whom I desire!
Achilles
That speech will save[*] them in the future; it has a certain pompous air.
Clytemnestra
Delay not for the sake of touching my right hand, if there is anything that you would say to me.
Old man
Well, you know my character and my devotion to you and your children.
Clytemnestra
I know you have grown old in the service of my house.
Old man
Likewise you know it was in your dowry king Agamemnon received me.
Clytemnestra
Yes, you came to Argos with me, and have been mine this long time past.
Old man
True; and I bear all goodwill to you, less to your husband.
Clytemnestra
Come, come, unfold whatever you have to say.
Old man
Her father, he that begot her, is on the point of slaying your daughter with his own hand.
Clytemnestra
How? That for your story, old man! you are mad.
Old man
Severing with a sword the hapless girls white throat.
Clytemnestra
Ah, alas for me! Does my husband happen to have gone mad?
Old man
No; he is sane, except where you and your daughter are concerned; there he is mad.
Clytemnestra
What is his reason? what vengeful fiend impels him?
Old man
Oracles, at least so Calchas says, in order that the army may start
Clytemnestra
Where? Alas for me, and for the one her father is going to kill!
Old man
To the halls of Dardanus, that Menelaus may recover Helen.
Clytemnestra
So Helens return then was fated to affect Iphigenia?

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