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EURIPIDES.
Iphigeneia.
Whether of you twain here was called by name
Pylades?—this thing first I fain would learn.
Orestes.
He—if to learn this pleasure thee at all.
Iphigeneia.
And of what Hellene state born citizen?495
Orestes.
How should the knowledge, lady, advantage thee?
Iphigeneia.
Say, of one mother be ye brethren twain?
Orestes.
In love we are brethren, lady, not in birth.
Iphigeneia.
And what name gave thy father unto thee?
Orestes.
Rightly might I be called "Unfortunate."500
Iphigeneia.
Not this I ask: lay this to fortune's door.[1]
- ↑ i.e. What I would know is the name for which your father, not fortune, is responsible.
