Euripides' HELEN Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Helen: I will beg the king of this country leave to bury thee in a
cenotaph, as if thou hadst really died at sea.

Menelaus: Suppose he grant it; how, e'en then, are we to escape without
a ship, after having committed me to my empty tomb?

Helen: I will bid him give me a vessel, from which to let drop into
the sea's embrace thy funeral offerings.

Menelaus: A clever plan in truth, save in one particular; suppose
he bid thee rear the tomb upon the strand, thy pretext comes to naught.

Helen: But I shall say it is not the custom in Hellas to bury those
who die at sea upon the shore.

Menelaus: Thou removest this obstacle too; I then will sail with thee
and help stow the funeral garniture in the same ship.

Helen: Above all, it is necessary that thou and all thy sailors who
escaped from the wreck should be at hand.

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