IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS
Iphigenia
0 miserable woman! Poor, poor king!
Orestes
1 pray, I beg you, ask me no more questions.
Iphigenia
Only about his queen. Is she alive? 555
Orestes (doggedly)
His queen is dead. Her own son killed her.
Iphigenia
Why?
Orestes
To punish her for murdering his father.
Iphigenia
It was exact of him. I pity him.
Orestes
As well you may, since no God pities him. 560
Iphigenia
Of Agamemnon's children, who is left?
Orestes
Electra—but her husband far from her.
Iphigenia
The one they sacrificed—what do they say?
Orestes
Nothing of her, except that she is dead,
Iphigenia
And he could kill his child—that "happy king!" 565
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