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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"><div type="textpart" subtype="dialogue"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="810">Does he then have a body that cannot be wounded by a sword?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="811">You will hear. But to undertake impossibilities is no mark of wisdom.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Menelaos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="812">And so I am to offer my hands to be bound, in silence?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="813">You are in a dilemma; we need some contrivance.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Menelaos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="814">Yes, for it is sweeter to die in action than by not acting.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="815">There is one hope, and only one, for our safety.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Menelaos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="816">Are we to buy it, or dare it, or win it with words?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="817">If the tyrant were not to learn of your arrival.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Menelaos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="818">Will any one tell him about me? He will certainly not know who I am.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="819">He has within an ally equal to the gods.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Menelaos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="820">A voice that has settled in the inmost parts of his house?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="821">No, but his sister; she is called Theonoe.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Menelaos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="822">The name is prophetic; tell me what she does.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Helen</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="823">She knows everything, and she will tell her brother that you are here.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Menelaos</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="824">We must die; for I cannot escape her notice.</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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