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Orestes.
Who? Of the prosperous is not he I know.
Iphigeneia.
One King Agamemnon, Atreus' scion named.545
Orestes.
I know not. Lady, let his story be.
Iphigeneia.
Nay, tell, by Heaven, that I be gladdened, friend.
Orestes.
Dead, hapless king!—and perished not alone.
Iphigeneia.
Dead is he? By what fate?—ah, woe is me!
Orestes.
Why dost thou sigh thus? Is he kin to thee?550
Iphigeneia.
His happiness of old days I bemoan.
Orestes.
Yea, and his awful death—slain by his wife!
Iphigeneia.
O all-bewailed, the murderess and the dead!
Orestes.
Refrain thee even now, and ask no more.
