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IPHIGENEIA AT AULIS.
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Klytemnestra.

By the God granted, or in heaven's despite?


Agamemnon.

'Twas Zeus betrothed her, and her father[1] gave.


Klytemnestra.

Where did he wed her?—'neath the heaving sea?


Agamemnon.

Where Cheiron dwells at Pelion's sacred foot. 705


Klytemnestra.

Where tribes of Centaurs have their haunt, men say?


Agamemnon.

Yea, there the Gods held Peleus' marriage-feast.


Klytemnestra.

Did Thetis, or his father, rear Achilles?


Agamemnon.

Cheiron, that he might learn not vile men's ways.


Klytemnestra.

Ay so!
Wise was the teacher, wiser yet the sire. 710


Agamemnon.

Such hero is to be thy daughter's lord.

  1. ↑ Lit. "he who had (paternal) control over her."
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