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Helen (1360-1375)

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and green ivy that crowns a sacred thyrsos, the whirling beat of the tambourine circling in the air, hair streaming wildly for the revelry of Bromios,
and the night-long festivals of the goddess. . . . You gloried in your beauty alone.
1369
Helen
My friends, all goes well for us inside;
for the daughter of Proteus, who aids us in our theft, has told her brother nothing when questioned as to my husbands coming; for my sake she said that he was not alive, but dead and buried. . . . My husband has snatched up by chance fine things indeed;
for he is carrying away the armor he was intending to let fall into the sea, putting his noble arm through the shield-strap and holding a spear in his right hand, on pretence of joining in the service to the dead. He has equipped his body with weapons conveniently for the battle,

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