Euripides' HELEN Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Menelaus: Be sure if once I find a ship at her moorings, they shall
be there man for man, each with his sword.

Helen: Thou must direct everything; only let there be winds to waft
our rails and a good ship to speed before them!

Menelaus: So shall it be; for the deities will cause my troubles to
cease. But from whom wilt thou say thou hadst tidings of my death?

Helen: From thee; declare thyself the one and only survivor, telling
how thou wert sailing with the son of Atreus, and didst see him perish.

Menelaus: Of a truth the garments I have thrown about me, will bear
out my tale that they were rags collected from the wreckage.

Helen: They come in most opportunely, but they were near being lost
just at the wrong time. Maybe that misfortune will turn to fortune.

Menelaus: Am I to enter the palace with thee, or are we to sit here
at the tomb quietly?

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