was induced to send her daughter to the camp. How
the proud queen avenged the deception practised upon
her will appear in the sequel.

When told of her doom, the maiden lamented in the
most piteous accents, but finally yielded with exalted
dignity and heroism to a fate differing in form but
scarcely more cruel than the fate that is often meted out
by the gods to the feeble mortals in their grasp. Moved
with a pity that was remarkably tardy and scarcely com-
plete in its expression, Artemis, at the supreme moment,
snatched the maiden from the sacrificial knife and
transported her to Tauris, ^* leaving a hind in her place.
The subsequent fate of Iphigenia will be found else-
where.

The submissive spirit of Agamemnon having been
sufficiently tested, the fleet was at last permitted to sail.
This time the sibyl of Erythræ ^† foretold the success of the
Greeks, and Troy was reached without further mishap.

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