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Rh crime." For a while the soldiers are persuaded to leave Iphigenia alone with the strangers, while she performs the necessary rites. At length her delay rouses their suspicion, and they discover that, so far from rendering the statue and the prisoners meet for the sacrifice, they are plotting not only flight, but theft. One of them brings the intelligence to Thoas:—

Orestes and his crew release Iphigenia from the guards, and drive them up the rocks,—

The sea, however, swept back the galley to the beach, and not even the fifty rowers can propel it out of harbour.