the bull and carried him bodily on to the deck. And Menelaus stroked the horse on neck and brow, co...
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Ho there! thou that with fearful effort seekest to reach the basement of the tomb and the pillars o...
To wrest the promise of Cypris- MENELAUS How now? Say on. HELEN From Paris, to whom that goddess...
HELEN No; his sister; Theonoe men call her. MENELAUS Her name hath a prophetic sound; tell me wha...
(THEONOE and her attendants enter the palace.) LEADER No man ever prospered by unjust practices, b...
410 BC HELEN by Euripides translated by E. P. Coleridge CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY HELEN, wife Of M...
THEOCLYMENUS What kind of death doth he declare that Menelaus died? HELEN The most piteous of all...
Dost speak of Leda? She is dead; aye, dead and gone. HELEN Was it Helen's shame that caused her de...
gods, first catch up the crashing cymbals, native to that land, and the drum with tight-stretched s...
As a bourne to his ploughing of fields, To the soils of his plains; He bears sway As far as the h...
For good, but not evil ends; and surely not for murderous violence. MENELAUS Never shalt thou wre...
greet him with a gloomy, frowning face, because of your zeal about a strange woman's death. Come he...
day. LEADER OF THE CHORUS Ah yes! I hear an outcry in the house amongst the servants, confirming ...
strophe 1 I have lived with the Muses And on lofty heights: Many doctrines have I learned; But F...
(ORESTES and HERMIONE depart.) CHORUS (singing) strophe 1 O Phoebus! who didst fence the hill of ...