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EURIPIDES.

Helen.

From Kypris to take the prey,—


Menelaus.

Say on, tell how. 680


Helen.

From Paris, to whom she had promised me,—

Menelaus.

Hapless thou!


Helen.

And the hapless to Egypt she brought, as my plight is now.


Menelaus.

And gave him thy wraith, as thou tellest me?


Helen.

But the woes in thine halls, O my mother, the woes that befell thee—
Alas and alas!


Menelaus.

What is this thou wouldst tell me?


Helen.

No mother have I! She knit up her neck for shame
In the strangling noose, for my bridal of evil fame!


Menelaus.

Woe's me! Our child Hermionê, liveth she?

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