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EURIPIDES.
Iphigeneia.
Exiled didst quit thy land, or by what hap?
Orestes.
In a sort exiled—willing, and yet loth.
Iphigeneia.
Yet long-desired from Argos hast thou come.
Orestes.
Of me, not: if of thee, see thou to that.[1]
Iphigeneia.
Now wouldst thou tell a thing I fain would know?515
Orestes.
Ay—a straw added to my trouble's weight.
Iphigeneia.
Troy haply know'st thou, famed the wide world through?
Orestes.
Would I did not,—not even seen in dreams!
Iphigeneia.
They say she is no more, by spears o'erthrown.
Orestes.
So is it: things not unfulfilled ye heard.520
Iphigeneia.
Came Helen back to Menelaus' home?
- ↑ Or, reading τοῦδ᾽ ἔρα, "joy thou in that."
