Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides Translated by Robert Potter eBooks ...
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And pray'd:-"O daughter of Latona, save me,<br />
Thy priestess save; from this barbaric land<br />
To Greece restore me, and forgive my thefts:<br />
For thou, O goddess, dost thy brother love,<br />
Deem then that I love those allied to me."<br />
The mar<strong>in</strong>ers responsive to her prayer<br />
Shouted loud paeans, and their naked arms,<br />
Each cheer<strong>in</strong>g each, to their stout oars apply.<br />
But nearer and yet nearer to the rock<br />
The galley drove: some rush'd <strong>in</strong>to the sea,<br />
Some stra<strong>in</strong>'d the ropes that b<strong>in</strong>d the loosen'd sails.<br />
Straight was I hither sent to thee, O k<strong>in</strong>g,<br />
To <strong>in</strong>form thee of these accidents. But haste,<br />
Take cha<strong>in</strong>s and gyves with thee: for if the flood<br />
side not to a calm, there is no hope<br />
Of safety to the strangers. Be assured,<br />
That Neptune, awful monarch of the ma<strong>in</strong>,<br />
Remembers Troy; and, hostile to the race<br />
Of Pelops, will deliver to thy hands,<br />
And to thy people, as is meet, the son<br />
Of Agamemnon; and br<strong>in</strong>g back to the<br />
His sister, who the goddess hath betray'd,<br />
Unm<strong>in</strong>dful of the blood at Aulis shed.<br />
LEADER<br />
Unhappy <strong>Iphigenia</strong>, thou must die,<br />
Thy brother too must die, if thou aga<strong>in</strong>,<br />
Seized <strong>in</strong> thy flight, to thy lord's hands shalt come.<br />
THOAS<br />
Inhabitants of this barbaric land,<br />
Will you not re<strong>in</strong> your steeds, will you not fly<br />
Along the shore, to seize whate'er this skiff<br />
Of Greece casts forth; and, for your goddess roused,<br />
Hunt down these impious men Will you not launch<br />
Instant your swift-oar'd barks, <strong>by</strong> sea, <strong>by</strong> land<br />
To catch them, from the rugged rock to hurl<br />
Their bodies, or impale them on the stake<br />
But for you, women, <strong>in</strong> these dark designs<br />
Accomplices, hereafter, as I f<strong>in</strong>d<br />
Convenient leisure, I will punish you.<br />
The occasion urges now, and gives no pause.<br />
(MINERVA appears above.)<br />
MINERVA<br />
Whither, O royal Thoas, dost thou lead<br />
This vengeful chase Attend: M<strong>in</strong>erva speaks.<br />
Cease thy pursuit, and stop this rush<strong>in</strong>g flood<br />
Of arms; for hither, <strong>by</strong> the fateful voice<br />
Of Phoebus, came Orestes, warn'd to fly<br />
The anger of the Furies, to convey<br />
His sister to her native Argos back,<br />
And to my land the sacred image bear.
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