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IPHIGENEIA AT AULIS.
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Klytemnestra.

Heaven bless thee, who still succourest the distressed!


Achilles.

Now hear me, that the matter well may speed.


Klytemnestra.

What meanest thou? I needs must list to thee.[1] 1010


Achilles.

Let us to a better mood persuade her sire.


Klytemnestra.

He is something craven—fears o'ermuch the host.


Achilles.

Yet mightier wrestler reason is than fear.[2]


Klytemnestra.

Cold hope is this: yet say what I must do.


Achilles.

Beseech him first to murder not his child. 1015
If he withstand thee, come thou unto me.
For, if he heed thy prayer, I need not stir,
Since in this very yielding is her life;
And friendlier so to a friend shall I appear.

  1. ↑ Or as England punctuates, "What meanest thou that I must hear of thee?"
  2. ↑ Reading, with England, φόβους, instead of the common reading λόγους, "Yet argument outwrestleth argument."
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