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[909-927] Iphigenia in Tauris 1091<br />

ORESTES<br />

Well hast thou said; apd Fortune here, I ween,<br />

Will aid us; to the firm and strenuous mind<br />

More potent works the influence divine.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Nothing shall check, nothing restrain my speech:<br />

First will I question thee what fortune waits<br />

Electra: this to know would yield me joy.<br />

ORESTES<br />

With him (pointing to Pylades) she dwells, and happy is her life.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Whence then is he? and from what father sprung?<br />

ORESTES<br />

From Phocis: Strophius is his father named.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

By Atreus' daughter to my blood allied?<br />

ORESTES<br />

Nearly allied: my only faithful friend.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

He was not then, me when my father slew.<br />

ORESTES<br />

Childless was Strophius for some length of time.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

O thou, the husband of my sister, hail!<br />

ORESTES<br />

More than relation, my preserver too.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

But to thy mother why that dreadful deed?<br />

ORESTES<br />

Of that no more: to avenge my father's death.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

But for what cause did she her husband slay?<br />

ORESTES<br />

Of her inquire not: thou wouldst blush to hear.

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