Wait! for I see that the one I am pursuingis still in the house, and has not fled.You there, why have you put black robes instead of white on your body, and cut the hair from your noble head with a sword, and why do you drench your cheeks with pale tears,lamenting? Do you mourn, persuaded by dreams in the night, or have you broken your heart with grief because you heard some voice within?HelenMy lord—for now I give you that name—I am destroyed; everything of mine is gone and I am nothing.TheokylmenosIn what misfortune are you plunged? What has happened?HelenMenelaos—alas, how shall I say it?—is dead, my husband.TheoklymenosI do not rejoice at your words, but it is good fortune for me. How do you know? Did Theonoe tell you this?HelenBoth she, and one who was there when he perished.TheoklymenosSomeone has come who announces this for certain?HelenSomeone has come; and may he go where I want him to go!TheoklymenosWho is it? Where is he? so that I may learn this more clearly.HelenThat one, who is sitting crouched at this tomb.TheoklymenosApollo! He certainly has unattractive clothing.HelenAlas! I think my husband is in the same situation also.TheoklymenosWhat is this man’s country, and where did he come from, to land here?HelenHe is a Hellene, one of the Achaeans who saiIed with my husband.TheoklymenosWhat kind of death does he say Menelaos died?HelenThe most piteous, in the watery waves at sea.TheoklymenosOn what part of the barbarous ocean was he sailing?