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IPHIGENEIA AT AULIS.
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Klytemnestra.

Ah, thy words with evil presage ring!


Achilles.

"Slain she must be!" cry they.


Klytemnestra.

Is there none whose words with theirs contend?


Achilles.

Yea, myself in tumult's peril was,—


Klytemnestra.

What peril, stranger friend?


Achilles.

Even to be stoned with stones.


Klytemnestra.

Since thou hadst fain my daughter spared? 1350


Achilles.

Even so.


Klytemnestra.

But lay a hand on thee! And who such deed had dared?


Achilles.

All the Hellenes.


Klytemnestra.

But with thee was not thy people's battle-host?

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