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Enough, then, of Homer and the Cyprian poems. But, when I asked the priests whether the Greek account of what happened at +Troy [26.2833,39.9167] (Perseus) Troy were idle or not, they gave me the following answer, saying that they had inquired and knew from Menelaus himself.
Enough, then, of Homer and the Cyprian poems. But, when I asked the priests whether the Greek account of what happened at +Troy [26.2833,39.9167] (Perseus) Troy were idle or not, they gave me the following answer, saying that they had inquired and knew from Menelaus himself.
[2] After the rape of
Helen, a great force of
Greeks came to the
Trojan land on
Menelaus' behalf. After disembarking and disposing their forces, they sent messengers to
+Troy [26.25,39.95] (deserted settlement), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia
Ilion
, one of whom was
Menelaus himself.
[3] When these were let inside the city walls, they demanded the restitution of
Helen and of the property which
Alexandrus had stolen from
Menelaus and carried off, and they demanded reparation for the wrongs; but the
Trojans gave the same testimony then and later, sworn and unsworn: that they did not have
Helen or the property claimed, but all of that was in
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa
Egypt
, and they could not justly make reparation for what
Proteus the
Egyptian had.
[4] But the
Greeks, thinking that the
Trojans were mocking them, laid siege to the city, until they took it; but there was no
Helen there when they breached the wall, but they heard the same account as before; so, crediting the original testimony, they sent
Menelaus himself to
Proteus.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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