Euripides' HELEN Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Menelaus: For want of an altar, or because it is the barbarians' way?

Helen: This was as good a protection to me as the gods' temples.

Menelaus: May I not then even bear thee homeward on my ship?

Helen: The sword far sooner than thy wife's embrace is waiting thee.

Menelaus: So should I be of all men the most miserable.

Helen: Put shame aside, and fly from this land.

Menelaus: Leaving thee behind? 'twas for thy sake I sacked Troy.

Helen: Better so, than that our union should cause thy death.

Menelaus: Oh! these are coward words, unworthy of those days at Troy!

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