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Quotation from Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays by Euripides
“Sweet charm of sleep, savior in sickness, how sweetly you came to me, how needed!”
Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Orestes, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891)
Orestes wakes after a fit of madness, nursed by Electra, and finds he remembers nothing.
Citation: "Sweet charm of sleep, savior in sickness, how sweetly you came to me, how needed!" — Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Orestes, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891). (id euripides-iphigenia-in-aulis-and-other-plays-q7)
Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.
