IPHIGENIA IN TAXJRIS
Orestes
Not king but exile. Menelaus is king.
Iphigenia
When you most needed him, he drove you out? 930
Orestes
Not he. The Furies—the avenging Fiends.
Iphigenia
Your madness on the beach—it was the Fiends?
Orestes
Anyone seeing me might think it madness.
Iphigenia
Still chasing you because you killed our mother?
Orestes
They try to choke me with my mother's bloodl 935
Iphigenia
What brought you here?
Orestes
Phoebus—His oracle.
Iphigenia
Why should He choose this place?
Orestes
Oh let me tell
My bitter narrative from end to end.
After my hand had unforgivably 940
Punished my mother's unforgivable sin,
Down on my head they came, the Avenging Furies,
The nameless Fiends. Then Phoebus ordered me
To Athens that I might explain to Them
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