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HELEN.
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Menelaus.

What God, what fate, thee from thy country tore?


Helen.

Zeus' Son, O mine husband, 'twas Zeus' son caught 670
Me away, it was Hermes to Nile that brought.


Menelaus.

Ah strange! Who sent him? Ah, the awesome tale!


Helen.

I wept, and the tears from mine eyes yet run:
By the bride of Zeus was I then undone.


Menelaus.

Hera?—what would she, heaping on us bale?


Helen.

Woe for my curse—for the baths from the hill-springs flowing[1]
Where flushed the Goddesses' loveliness lovelier-glowing,
Whereof that Judgment[2] came for a land's overthrowing!


Menelaus.

Did Hera make this judgment woe for thee?[3]

  1. ↑ Cf. Andromache, l. 284.
  2. ↑ The Judgment of Paris.
  3. ↑ Retaining the MSS. reading. Lit. "Did Hera make this matter of the Judgment a part of thy woes?"
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