The Cypria: Reconstructing the Lost Prequel to Homer's Iliad by D M Smith

Author:D M Smith [Smith, D M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 2017-08-09T00:00:00+00:00

MENELAUS Yes, and good for nothing and useless, when amongst us.

AGAMEMNON Has the thought, which is rising in my mind, no terrors for thee?

MENELAUS How can I understand thy meaning, unless thou declare it?

AGAMEMNON The son of Sisyphus knows all.

MENELAUS Odysseus cannot possibly hurt us.[64]

AGAMEMNON He was ever shifty by nature, siding with the mob.

MENELAUS True, he is enslaved by the love of popularity; a fearful evil.

AGAMEMNON Bethink thee then, will he not arise among the Argives and tell them the oracles that Calchas delivered, saying of me that I undertook to offer Artemis a victim, and after all am proving false? Then, when he has carried the army away with him, he will bid the Argives slay us and sacrifice the maiden. And if I escape to Argos, they will come and destroy the place, razing it to the ground, Cyclopean walls and all. That is my trouble. Woe is me! To what straits Heaven has brought me at this pass! Take one precaution for me, Menelaus, as thou goest through the host, that Clytemnestra learn this not, till I have taken my child and devoted her to death, that my affliction may be attended with the fewest tears. (Turning to the CHORUS) And you, ye stranger dames, keep silence.

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