Iphigenia

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Īphĭgĕnīa, ae (Gr. acc. Iphigenian, Ov. P. 3, 2, 62), f., = Ἰφιγένεια,

Iphigenīa , a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra , who , because her father had killed , in Aulis , a hart belonging to Diana , was to be offered up by way of expiation; but the goddess put a hart in her place and conveyed her to the Tauric Chersonese , where she became a priestess of Diana , and with her brother Orestes carried off Diana’s image , Ov. M. 12, 27 sq.; Hyg. Fab. 98 and 120; Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 146; Prop. 3, 7 (4, 6), 24; Juv. 12, 119.