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Menippus

Well, but show me Helen; I shall never be able to make her out by myself. 5

Hermes

This skull is Helen.

Menippus

And for this a thousand ships carried warriors from every part of Greece; Greeks and barbarians were slain, and cities made desolate.

Hermes

Ah, Menippus, you never saw the living Helen; or you would have said with Homer, Well might they suffer grievous years of toil Who strove for such a prize. We look at withered flowers, whose dye is gone from them, and what can we call them but unlovely things? Yet in the hour of their bloom these unlovely things were things of beauty.

Menippus

Strange, that the Greeks could not realize what it was for which they laboured; how short-lived, how soon to fade.

Hermes

I have no time for moralizing. Choose your spot, where you will, and lie down. I must go to fetch new dead.

XIX

Aeacus. Protesilaus. Menelaus. Paris

Aeacus

Now then, Protesilaus, what do you mean by assaulting and throttling Helen?

Protesilaus

Why, it was all her fault that I died, leaving my house half built, and my bride a widow.

Aeacus

You should blame Menelaus, for taking you all to Troy after such a light-o’-love.

Protesilaus

That is true; he shall answer it.

Menelaus

No, no, my dear sir; Paris surely is the man; he outraged all rights in carrying off his host’s wife with him. He deserves throttling, if you like, and not from you only, but from Greeks and barbarians as well, for all the deaths he brought upon them, 5

Protesilaus

Ah, now I have it. Here, you—you Paris! you shall not escape my clutches,