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EURIPIDES.

Helen.

Hath Menelaus with his wife won home?


Teucer.

Nay, nor to Argos, nor Eurotas' streams.


Helen.

Woe! Ill news this to whom thy tale is ill.[1] 125


Teucer.

Lost, with his wife, from sight: so rumour runs.


Helen.

Sailed not together all the Argives home?


Teucer.

Yea; but a storm dispersed them far and wide.


Helen.

On what surf-ridges of the outsea brine?[2]


Teucer.

In the mid-passage of the Aegean sea. 130


Helen.

Hath none since then seen Menelaus come?

  1. ↑ This is ill news indeed to such as will receive thy tale as ill news, i.e. as Teucer would understand, to all Menelaus' friends,—as she means, to herself.
  2. ↑ In what quarter of the sea?—if the southern part, near Egypt, there is some hope.
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