HELEN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 Then Jove's daughter Helen bethought her of another matter.
2 Then Helen took her seat, put her feet upon the footstool, and began to question her husband.
3 While he was thus in two minds Helen came down from her high vaulted and perfumed room, looking as lovely as Diana herself.
4 This son, Megapenthes, was born to him of a bondwoman, for heaven vouchsafed Helen no more children after she had borne Hermione, who was fair as golden Venus herself.
5 Helen wept, Telemachus wept, and so did Menelaus, nor could Pisistratus keep his eyes from filling, when he remembered his dear brother Antilochus whom the son of bright Dawn had killed.
6 Polybus lived in Egyptian Thebes, which is the richest city in the whole world; he gave Menelaus two baths, both of pure silver, two tripods, and ten talents of gold; besides all this, his wife gave Helen some beautiful presents, to wit, a golden distaff, and a silver work box that ran on wheels, with a gold band round the top of it.
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