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But, to make brief end, I will hold my peace
Of all ye have prayed of me, nor ever be
Co-plotter with my brother's wantonness.
I do him service, though it seem not so, 1020
Who turn him unto righteousness from sin.
Yet how to escape must ye yourselves devise:
I from your path will stand, will hold my peace.
With prayer to Gods begin ye: supplicate
Kypris to grant return to fatherland. 1025
Thou, pray that Hera's mind abide unchanged,
Her will for thy deliverance and thy lord's.
And thou, dead sire, so far as in me lies,
Impious for righteous ne'er shalt be misnamed.

None prospered ever by unrighteousness: 1030
In righteousness all hope of safety dwells.

Menelaus, for the maiden safe we are.
Thou, for the rest, give counsel to devise
A path of safety alike for thee and me.

Hearken. Long hast thou dwelt beneath yon roof 1035
Co-inmate with the servants of the king:—

Why say'st thou this? Thou givest hint of hopes,
As thou wouldst work deliverance for us twain.

Couldst thou persuade some warder of four-horse cars
To give to us a chariot and steeds? 1040