Stasimon 2
[Episode]
What if you were to hide me secretly in the shrine?
Iphigenia
So that we might take advantage of the darkness and escape?
1025
Orestes
Yes, for the night belongs to thieves, the light to truth.
Iphigenia
There are secred guards within, who will notice us.
Orestes
Alas, we are ruined! How can we be saved?
Iphigenia
I think I have a new stratagem.
Orestes
What is it? Let me know; share your thought.
1030
Iphigenia
I will use your sorrows as my contrivance.
Orestes
Women are wonderfully good at devising crafty plans!
Iphigenia
I will say that you came from Argos after killing your mother.
Orestes
Make use of my troubles, if you gain by it.
Iphigenia
And that it is not right to sacrifice you to the goddess.
1035
Orestes
With what reason? I have a suspicion.
Iphigenia
Because you are not pure; I will frighten what is sacred.
Orestes
How does this help us to seize the statue of the goddess?
Iphigenia
I shall want to purify you in the waves of the sea—
Orestes
The image that we have sailed for is still in the temple.
1040
Iphigenia
I will say that I have washed that also, since you have touched it.
Orestes
Where? Do you mean the watery inlet of the sea?
Iphigenia
Where your ship is moored by its roped anchor.
