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264 Enter Thoas from the temple.

Who makes this outcry at the Goddess' fane,

Smiting the doors, and hurling noise within?

Falsely these said—would so have driven me hence—

That thou wast forth, while yet wast thou within.

What profit sought they?—hunted for what gain?

Their deeds hereafter will I tell. Hear thou

The trouble at the doors. The maid that here

Served at the altars, Iphigeneia, is fled

With yonder strangers, and the holy image

Hath taken. Nought but guile that cleansing was.

How say'st? What wind of fortune hath she found?

To save Orestes. Marvel thou at this!

Orestes?—him whom Tyndareus' daughter bare?

Him whom the Goddess hallowed for her altars.