Euripides III: The Complete Greek Tragedies, Third Edition by David Grene & Richmond Lattimore

Author:David Grene & Richmond Lattimore [Grene, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

85

You told me to go to the Taurian land

where your sister Artemis has her altars

and steal a statue of the goddess

that (people say) fell from the sky to this temple here.

90

Take it by cunning or take it by luck, no matter the risk,

and give it to Athens.

That’s all you said.

If I do this, I breathe free.

So

I obeyed you, I came here.

To a land unknown and inhospitable.

95

But, Pylades, tell me, what should we do?

You’re my partner in this.

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