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.
- Do you know a certain Achilleus, the son of Peleus?
- Yes; he came to woo Helen once, so I hear.
- When he died, he left a contest for his armor to his allies.
- Well, if he did, what harm is this to Aias?
- When someone else got the arms, he took his own life.
- Then are you ill through his suffering?
- Yes, because I did not die together with him.
- So you went to the famous city of Ilion, stranger?
- Yes, and by helping to sack it, I destroyed myself as well.
- Has it already been set alight and completely consumed by fire?
- So that not even a trace of the walls is evident.
- O miserable Helen! Because of you, the Phrygians have been destroyed.
- And also the Achaeans; great evils have been committed.
- How long is it since the city was sacked?
- Almost seven years have gone full circle, with their harvests.