§491θυσίας ἐπιστάμεσθα καὶ γιγνώσκομεν.
[Orestes]: We understand and know the sacrifices of this place.
[Iphigenia]: Which of you two, then, is named Pylades here?
τόδε μαθεῖν πρῶτον θέλω.
This is what I wish to learn first.
§494ὅδʼ, εἴ τι δή σοι τοῦτʼ ἐν ἡδονῇ μαθεῖν.
[Orestes]: This man here, if indeed it is any pleasure for you to learn this.
§495ποίας πολίτης πατρίδος Ἕλληνος γεγώς;
[Iphigenia]: Citizen of what Greek fatherland was he born?
§496τί δʼ ἂν μαθοῦσα τόδε πλέον λάβοις, γύναι;
[Orestes]: What more would you gain by learning this, O woman?
§497πότερον ἀδελφὼ μητρός ἐστον ἐκ μιᾶς;
[Iphigenia]: Are you two brothers born from one mother?
§498φιλότητί γʼ· ἐσμὲν δʼ οὐ κασιγνήτω, γύναι.
[Orestes]: In friendship, yes; but we are not brothers by blood, O woman.
§499σοὶ δʼ ὄνομα ποῖον ἔθεθʼ ὁ γεννήσας πατήρ;
[Iphigenia]: And what name did the father who begot you give to you?
[Orestes]: Justly speaking, I might be called "Unfortunate." [Iphigenia]: I am not asking this; leave this to fortune.
§502ἀνώνυμοι θανόντες οὐ γελῴμεθʼ ἄν.
[Orestes]: Dying nameless, we would not be laughed at.
§503τί δὲ φθονεῖς τοῦτο;
[Iphigenia]: Why do you grudge this?
ἦ φρονεῖς οὕτω μέγα;
Do you think so highly of yourself?
§504τὸ σῶμα θύσεις τοὐμόν, οὐχὶ τοὔνομα.
[Orestes]: You will sacrifice my body, not my name.
§505οὐδʼ ἂν πόλιν φράσειας ἥτις ἐστί σοι;
[Iphigenia]: Would you not even tell me what city is yours?
§506ζητεῖς γὰρ οὐδὲν κέρδος, ὡς θανουμένῳ.
[Orestes]: For you seek what is of no benefit to me, as one who is about to die.
§507χάριν δὲ δοῦναι τήνδε κωλύει τί σε;
[Iphigenia]: But what prevents you from granting this favor?
§508τὸ κλεινὸν Ἄργος πατρίδʼ ἐμὴν ἐπεύχομαι.
[Orestes]: I boast that famous Argos is my fatherland.
§509πρὸς θεῶν, ἀληθῶς, ὦ ξένʼ, εἶ κεῖθεν γεγώς;
[Iphigenia]: By the gods, stranger, are you truly born from there?
§510ἐκ τῶν Μυκηνῶν γʼ, αἵ ποτʼ ἦσαν ὄλβιαι.
[Orestes]: Yes, from Mycenae, which once was prosperous.
§511φυγὰς δʼ ἀπῆρας πατρίδος, ἢ ποίᾳ τύχῃ;
[Iphigenia]: Did you depart your fatherland as an exile, or by what fortune?
§512φεύγω τρόπον γε δή τινʼ οὐχ ἑκὼν ἑκών.
[Orestes]: I am an exile in a certain way, unwilling yet willing.
§513ἆρʼ ἄν τί μοι φράσειας ὧν ἐγὼ θέλω;
[Iphigenia]: Would you perhaps tell me something of what I wish to know?
§514ὡς ἐν παρέργῳ τῆς ἐμῆς δυσπραξίας.
[Orestes]: As a minor matter alongside my misfortune, I will speak.
§515καὶ μὴν ποθεινός γʼ ἦλθες ἐξ Ἄργους μολών.
[Iphigenia]: Truly, you have come as a longed-for visitor, arriving from Argos.
§516οὔκουν ἐμαυτῷ γʼ· εἰ δὲ σοί, σὺ τοῦτʼ ἔρα.
[Orestes]: Not to myself, at least; but if to you, you may enjoy this.
§517Τροίαν ἴσως οἶσθʼ, ἧς ἁπανταχοῦ λόγος.
[Iphigenia]: Perhaps you know Troy, of which there is talk everywhere.
§518ὡς μήποτʼ ὤφελόν γε μηδʼ ἰδὼν ὄναρ.
[Orestes]: Would that I had never known it, not even in a dream!
§519φασίν νιν οὐκέτʼ οὖσαν οἴχεσθαι δορί.
[Iphigenia]: They say that she is no more, destroyed by the spear.
§520ἔστιν γὰρ οὕτως οὐδʼ ἄκραντʼ ἠκούσατε.
[Orestes]: For so it is; what you have heard is not in vain.
§521Ἑλένη δʼ ἀφῖκται δῶμα Μενέλεω πάλιν;
[Iphigenia]: And has Helen returned to the house of Menelaus again?
§522ἥκει, κακῶς γʼ ἐλθοῦσα τῶν ἐμῶν τινι.
[Orestes]: She has returned, and to the misfortune of one of my kin.
§523καὶ ποῦ ʼστι;
[Iphigenia]: And where is she?
κἀμοὶ γάρ τι προυφείλει κακόν.
For she owes some evil to me too.
§524Σπάρτῃ ξυνοικεῖ τῷ πάρος ξυνευνέτῃ.
[Orestes]: She dwells in Sparta with her former husband.
§525ὦ μῖσος εἰς Ἕλληνας, οὐκ ἐμοὶ μόνῃ.
[Iphigenia]: O hateful thing to the Greeks, and not to me alone!
§526ἀπέλαυσα κἀγὼ δή τι τῶν κείνης γάμων.
[Orestes]: I too, indeed, have reaped some "benefit" from her marriage.
§527νόστος δʼ Ἀχαιῶν ἐγένεθʼ, ὡς κηρύσσεται;
[Iphigenia]: And did the return of the Achaeans take place, as is proclaimed?
§528ὡς πάνθʼ ἅπαξ με συλλαβοῦσʼ ἀνιστορεῖς.
[Orestes]: How you question me, gathering everything together at once!
§529πρὶν γὰρ θανεῖν σε, τοῦδʼ ἐπαυρέσθαι θέλω.
[Iphigenia]: For before you die, I wish to gain this pleasure.
§530ἔλεγχʼ, ἐπειδὴ τοῦδʼ ἐρᾷς· λέξω δʼ ἐγώ.
[Orestes]: Question me, since you desire this; and I will speak.
§531Κάλχας τις ἦλθε μάντις ἐκ Τροίας πάλιν;
[Iphigenia]: Did a certain prophet Calchas return from Troy again?
§532ὄλωλεν, ὡς ἦν ἐν Μυκηναίοις λόγος.
[Orestes]: He is dead, as the report was among the Mycenaeans.
§533ὦ πότνιʼ, ὡς εὖ. — τί γὰρ ὁ Λαέρτου γόνος;
[Iphigenia]: O mistress, how well! — And what of the son of Laertes?
§534οὔπω νενόστηκʼ οἶκον, ἔστι δʼ, ὡς λόγος.
[Orestes]: He has not yet returned home, but he is alive, as they say.
§535ὄλοιτο, νόστου μήποτʼ ἐς πάτραν τυχών.
[Iphigenia]: May he perish, never achieving a return to his fatherland!
§536μηδὲν κατεύχου· πάντα τἀκείνου νοσεῖ.
[Orestes]: Utter no curses; all his affairs are in a suffering state.
§537Θέτιδος δʼ ὁ τῆς Νηρῇδος ἔστι παῖς ἔτι;
[Iphigenia]: And is the son of Thetis the Nereid still alive?
§538οὐκ ἔστιν· ἄλλως λέκτρʼ ἔγημʼ ἐν Αὐλίδι.
[Orestes]: He is not; in vain did he contract marriages in Aulis.
§539δόλια γάρ, ὡς ἴσασιν οἱ πεπονθότες.
[Iphigenia]: Yes, treacherous indeed, as those who suffered it well know.
§540τίς εἶ ποθʼ;
[Orestes]: Who on earth are you?
ὡς εὖ πυνθάνῃ τἀφʼ Ἑλλάδος.
How well you inquire about the affairs of Greece.
§541ἐκεῖθέν εἰμι· παῖς ἔτʼ οὖσʼ ἀπωλόμην.
[Iphigenia]: I am from there; while still a child I was ruined.
§542ὀρθῶς ποθεῖς ἄρʼ εἰδέναι τἀκεῖ, γύναι.
[Orestes]: Rightly, then, do you desire to know the things there, O woman.
§543τί δʼ ὁ στρατηγός, ὃν λέγουσʼ εὐδαιμονεῖν;
[Iphigenia]: And what of the general, whom they say was fortunate?
§544τίς;
[Orestes]: Who?
οὐ γὰρ ὅν γʼ ἐγᾦδα τῶν εὐδαιμόνων.
For the one I know is certainly not among the fortunate.
§545Ἀτρέως ἐλέγετο δή τις Ἀγαμέμνων ἄναξ.
[Iphigenia]: He was called a certain King Agamemnon, son of Atreus.
§546οὐκ οἶδʼ· ἄπελθε τοῦ λόγου τούτου, γύναι.
[Orestes]: I do not know; leave this subject, O woman.
§547μὴ πρὸς θεῶν, ἀλλʼ εἴφʼ, ἵνʼ εὐφρανθῶ, ξένε.
[Iphigenia]: Do not, by the gods, but speak, so that I may be gladdened, stranger.
§548τέθνηχʼ ὁ τλήμων, πρὸς δʼ ἀπώλεσέν τινα.
[Orestes]: He is dead, the wretched man, and in dying he destroyed another.
§549τέθνηκε;
[Iphigenia]: Dead?
ποίᾳ συμφορᾷ;
By what misfortune?
τάλαινʼ ἐγώ.
Ah, wretched me!
§550τί δʼ ἐστέναξας τοῦτο;
[Orestes]: Why did you groan at this?
μῶν προσῆκέ σοι;
Was he perchance a relation of yours?
§551τὸν ὄλβον αὐτοῦ τὸν πάροιθʼ ἀναστένω.
[Iphigenia]: I lament his former prosperity.
§552δεινῶς γὰρ ἐκ γυναικὸς οἴχεται σφαγείς.
[Orestes]: Yes, for he perished dreadfully, slaughtered by a woman.
§553ὦ πανδάκρυτος ἡ κτανοῦσα χὡ κτανών.
[Iphigenia]: O altogether to be wept for, both the slayer and the slain!
§554παῦσαί νυν ἤδη μηδʼ ἐρωτήσῃς πέρα.
[Orestes]: Cease now indeed, and ask no further.
§555τοσόνδε γʼ, εἰ ζῇ τοῦ ταλαιπώρου δάμαρ.
[Iphigenia]: Only this much: does the wife of the wretched man still live?
§556οὐκ ἔστι· παῖς νιν ὃν ἔτεχʼ, οὗτος ὤλεσεν.
[Orestes]: She is no more; the son whom she bore, he destroyed her.
§557ὦ συνταραχθεὶς οἶκος.
[Iphigenia]: O house utterly thrown into confusion!
ὡς τί δὴ θέλων;
With what purpose did he do this?
§558πατρὸς θανόντος τήνδε τιμωρούμενος.
[Orestes]: Avenging the death of his father on her.
§559φεῦ·
[Iphigenia]: Alas!
§559aὡς εὖ κακὸν δίκαιον εἰσεπράξατο.
How well, though it was an evil thing, he exacted justice!
§560ἀλλʼ οὐ τὰ πρὸς θεῶν εὐτυχεῖ δίκαιος ὤν.
[Orestes]: Yet, though he was just, he is not fortunate in his relations with the gods.
§561λείπει δʼ ἐν οἴκοις ἄλλον Ἀγαμέμνων γόνον;
[Iphigenia]: And did Agamemnon leave any other offspring in his house?
§562λέλοιπεν Ἠλέκτραν γε παρθένον μίαν.
[Orestes]: He has left Electra, a single virgin daughter.
§563τί δέ; σφαγείσης θυγατρὸς ἔστι τις λόγος;
[Iphigenia]: And what of the slaughtered daughter?
§564οὐδείς γε, πλὴν θανοῦσαν οὐχ ὁρᾶν φάος.
Is there any talk of her? [Orestes]: None, except that she is dead and no longer sees the light.