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THE ELOPEMENT OF HELEN.
FROM THE AGAMEMNON. (402-421.)
Λιποῦσα δ᾽ ἀστοῖσιν ἀσπίστορας
Κλόνους λογχίμους τε καὶ ναυβάτας ὁπλισμοὺς,
Ἄγουσά τ᾿ ἀντίφερνον Ἰλίῳ φθορὰν,
Βέβακε ῥίμφα διὰ πυλᾶν,
Ἄτλητα τλᾶσα· κ.τ.λ.
Κλόνους λογχίμους τε καὶ ναυβάτας ὁπλισμοὺς,
Ἄγουσά τ᾿ ἀντίφερνον Ἰλίῳ φθορὰν,
Βέβακε ῥίμφα διὰ πυλᾶν,
Ἄτλητα τλᾶσα· κ.τ.λ.
Daring a deed that none should dare,
O'er the threshold of her home
Lightly stept the lady fair—
She is o'er the ocean-foam,
Fleeing from the Spartan strand,
Bequeathing to her native land
Musterings, throngings to the bay,
The clanging of the spear and shield,
The vengeful galley's swift array,
The rush to many a bloody field.
And with her to the Trojan shore
Destruction she for dowry bore.
O'er the threshold of her home
Lightly stept the lady fair—
She is o'er the ocean-foam,
Fleeing from the Spartan strand,
Bequeathing to her native land
Musterings, throngings to the bay,
The clanging of the spear and shield,
The vengeful galley's swift array,
The rush to many a bloody field.
And with her to the Trojan shore
Destruction she for dowry bore.