maidens, bringing, it is true, glory to the Danaids, that Artemis has received as an offering, before they begin the voyage to Ilium.Reading μὰν for μὲν and ἐμὸν for ἐμοὶ, also προθύματ᾽ for πρόθυμά σ᾽ in this hopelessly corrupt passage. Monk, rejecting ὄνομα . . . Δαναίδαισιν, assigns the next two lines to the Chorus, merely altering κόραι to κόρα, but this is scarcely likely to be the solution of the difficulty.O mother, mother! he that begot me to this life of sorrow has gone and left me all alone.Ah! woe is me! a bitter, bitter sight for me was Helen, evil Helen! to me now doomed to bleed and die, slaughtered by an impious father!I wish this Aulis had never receivedin its havens here the stems of their bronze-beaked ships, the fleet which was speeding them to Troy; and would that Zeus had never breathed on the Euripus a wind to stop the expedition,Reading πομπᾷ. The whole of this passage (l. 1323-29) is probably more or less corrupt, and the construction suspiciously harsh; possibly the text has suffered from interpolations and glosses on the original. tempering, as he does,