Helen
Euripides
Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.
- And how much longer were you waiting at Troy?
- For many months; the moon held its course through ten years.
- And did you capture the Spartan woman?
- Menelaos caught her by the hair to drag her away.
- Did you yourself see the wretched creature? Or do you speak from hearsay?
- I saw her with my own eyes, just as I see you, no less.
- Consider whether you had some fancy, sent by the gods.
- Think of some other topic, not that woman still!
- Are you so sure this fancy was reliable?
- I saw it with my own eyes; and the mind has sight.
- Is Menelaos already at home with his wife?
- No; he is neither in Argos nor by the streams of the Eurotas.
- Alas! This is evil news for those to whom you bring it.
- He is said to have disappeared with his wife.
- Wasn’t there the same passage for all the Argives?