Euripides' HELEN Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Menelaus: True; 'tis impossible. Well, supposing I conceal myself
in the palace and slay the king with this two-edged sword?

Helen: His sister would never refrain from telling her brother that
thou wert meditating his death.

Menelaus: We have not so much as a ship to make our escape in; for
the sea. hath swallowed the one we had.

Helen: Hear me, if haply even a woriian can utter words of wisdom.
Dost thou consent to be dead in word, though not really so?

Menelaus: 'Tis a bad omen; still, if by saying so I shall gain aught,
I am ready to be dead in word, though not in deed.

Helen: I, too, will mourn thee with hair cut short and dirges, as
is women's way, before this impious wretch.

Menelaus: What saving remedy doth this afford us twain? There is deception
in thy scheme.

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