Euripides' HELEN Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Theoclymenus: Why so? wherefore doth Hellas observe this custom?

Menelaus: That the billow may not cast up again our expiatory offerings.

Theoclymenus: Phoenician rowers will soon cover the distance.

Menelaus: 'Twill be well done, and gratifying to Menelaus, too.

Theoclymenus: Canst thou not perform these rites well enough without
Helen?

Menelaus: This task belongs to mother, wife, or children.

Theoclymenus: 'Tis her task then, according to thee, to bury her husband.

Menelaus: To be sure; piety demands that the dead be not robbed of
their due.

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