Euripides' HELEN Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Helen: Ah, my lord! 'twas Hermes, the son of Zeus, that brought and
placed me by the banks of Nile.

Menelaus: A miracle! Who sent thee thither? O monstrous story!

Helen: I wept, and still my eyes are wet with tears. 'Twas the wife
of Zeus that ruined me.

Menelaus: Hera? wherefore should she afflict us twain?

Helen: Woe is me for my awful fate! Woe for those founts and baths
where the goddesses made brighter still that beauty, which evoked
the fatal verdict!

Menelaus: Why did Hera visit thee with evil regarding this verdict?

Helen: To wrest the promise of Cypris-

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