Euripides' HELEN Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Helen: Then by thy knees, since thou art my friend indeed,-

Theoclymenus: What art so bent on winning, that to me thou stretchest
out a suppliant hand?

Helen: My dead husband would I fain bury.

Theoclymenus: What tomb can be bestowed on lost bodies? Wilt thou
bury a shade?

Helen: In Hellas we have a custom, whene'er one is drowned at sea-

Theoclymenus: What is your custom? The race of Pelops truly hath some
skill in matters such as this.

Helen: To hold a burial with woven robes that wrap no corpse.

Theoclymenus: Perform the ceremony; rear the tomb where'er thou wilt.

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