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Quotation from Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays by Euripides

“My conscience; I know that I am guilty of a dreadful crime.”

Euripides (spoken by Orestes)

Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Orestes, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891)

Portrait of Euripides

Asked by Menelaus what his deadly sickness is, Orestes names his guilty knowledge of the matricide.

Citation: "My conscience; I know that I am guilty of a dreadful crime." — Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Orestes, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891). (id euripides-iphigenia-in-aulis-and-other-plays-q8)

Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.

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