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.

  1. Hello! Is there some gatekeeper who might come from the house and announce my troubles within?
Old woman
  1. Who’s at the door? Get away from the house and don’t annoy my master by standing at the court-yard gate! Or else you will die because you are
  2. a Hellene, and they have no business here.
Menelaos
  1. My good woman, you can say these same words in a different tone, for I shall be persuaded; but let go your angry speech.
Old woman
  1. Go away! Stranger, my orders are to let no Hellene come near this house.