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HELEN.
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Theoklymenus.

Who is he?—where?—that I be certified.


Helen.

Yon man who sitteth cowering at the tomb.


Theoklymenus.

Apollo!—lo, how marred his vesture shows!


Helen.

Ah me, so showeth now my lord, I ween! 1205


Theoklymenus.

Of what land?—and whence sailed he to our shore?


Helen.

Greek, an Achaian, shipmate of my lord.


Theoklymenus.

By what death says he Menelaus died?


Helen.

Most piteously, in whelming surge of brine.[1]


Theoklymenus.

And where on alien waters voyaging? 1210


Helen.

On havenless rocks of Libya cast away.

  1. ↑ The Greeks had a special horror of death by drowning, and, indeed, by any form of suffocation. Cf. Tempest I, i. "I would fain die a dry death."
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