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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="episode"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1231">No longer; begin my wedding now.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theoklymenos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1232">It has come after a long time, but still I commend you for it.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1233">Do you know what you should do? Let us forget what is past.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theoklymenos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1234">On what terms? One good turn deserves another.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1235">Let us make a truce; be reconciled to me.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theoklymenos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1236">I relinquish my quarrel with you; may it go away on wings.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1237">Now by your knees, since you are indeed a friend—</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theoklymenos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1238">What thing do you hunt after, that you stretch out a suppliant hand to me?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1239">I wish to bury my dead husband.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theoklymenos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1240">What? Is there a tomb for the absent? Or will you bury a shadow?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1241">It is customary among the Hellenes, whenever someone dies at sea—</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theoklymenos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1242">To do what? The race of Pelops is certainly clever in such matters.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1243">To carry out the funeral rites in empty woven robes.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theoklymenos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1244">Hold the funeral; set up the tomb wherever you wish.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="1245">We do not give burial like this to sailors who have perished.</l></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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