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Many of the Achaeans have breathed out their last amid the spears and hurling stones and have gone to unhappy Hades; their wives have cut off their hair in sorrow,
and their homes are left without a bride; an Achaean man, who had only a single ship, lit a blazing beacon on sea-girt
Euboia
, and destroyed many of them, casting them onto the rocks of Kaphareus
1125
and the sea-shores of the
Aegean
, by the treacherous flame he kindled. The mountains of Malea provided no harbor, in the gusts of the storm, when Menelaos sped far away from his country, bearing on his ships a prize of the barbarian expedition, no prize but strife
1130
with the Danaans, Hera’s holy phantom.
1135
Many of the Achaeans have breathed out their last amid the spears and hurling stones and have gone to unhappy Hades; their wives have cut off their hair in sorrow,
and their homes are left without a bride; an Achaean man, who had only a single ship, lit a blazing beacon on sea-girt
Euboia
, and destroyed many of them, casting them onto the rocks of Kaphareus
1125
and the sea-shores of the
Aegean
, by the treacherous flame he kindled. The mountains of Malea provided no harbor, in the gusts of the storm, when Menelaos sped far away from his country, bearing on his ships a prize of the barbarian expedition, no prize but strife
1130
with the Danaans, Hera’s holy phantom.
1135
Helen. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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