Īphĭgĕnīa, ae (Gr. acc. Iphigenian,
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 ,