EURIPIDES
Orestes
Knowing so much, are you yourself from Hellas? ^0
Iphigenia
I lived in Hellas, many years ago.
Orestes
No wonder you are asking all these questions.
Iphigenia
What of that king they called The Happy King?
Orestes
I know no happy king. Whom do you mean?
Iphigenia
King Agamemnon.
Orestes
What can I say of him? 545
Nothing at all of him. No, do not ask me.
Iphigenia
I beg you by the Gods do me that grace.
Orestes
The news is death—his and another death.
Iphigenia
O Agamemnon! O King Agamemnon!
Orestes
Can you be kin to him, you care so much? 550
Iphigenia
Remembering his love of life, his pride!
Orestes
All of it ended by a woman's hand.
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