IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS
Iphigenia
The Achaeans are safely home, as I have heard?
Orestes
Some of them are. It would take long to tell.
Iphigenia
But tell me all you can while there is time!
Orestes
Then ask me all you can and I will answer. 530
Iphigenia
The soothsayer, Calchas? Is he back from Troy?
Orestes
Mycenae people say that he is dead.
Iphigenia
Praise Artemis! And is Odysseus dead?
Orestes
Not back nor dead, they say. Still wandering.
Iphigenia
Oh how I hope he never reaches home! * 535
Orestes
Why wish him worse than he has borne already?
Iphigenia
What of Achilles?
Orestes
Dead. The marriage planned
At Aulis never happened.
Iphigenia
Those who know
Know well that it was never meant to happen.
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