THE RAPE OF HELEN 



nine-circled course of her wandering path, where 

 tliou didst range and cry, PhylliSj waiting the safe 

 return of thy husband Deniojihoon, when he should 

 come back from the land of Athena. Then across 

 the rich land of the Haemonians* there suddenly 

 arose upon his eyes the flowery Achaean land, 

 Plithia, feeder of men, and Mycene of wide streets. 

 Then past the marshes where Erymanthus ^ rises he 

 marked Spai-ta of fair women, the dear city of the 

 sun of Atreus, lying on the banks of the Eurotas. 

 Vnd hard by, established under a hill's shady wood, 

 gazed upon her neiglibour, lovely Therapne. 

 i lit-nce they had not far to sail, nor was the noise of 

 the oars rowing in the calm sea heard for long, 

 when they cast the hawsers of the ship upon the 

 shores of a fair gulf and made them fast, even they 

 Av hose business was the works of the sea. 



And he washed him in the snowy river and went 

 liis way, stepping with careful steps, lest his lovely 

 feet should be defiled of the dust ; lest, if he 

 hastened more quickly, the winds should blow 

 heavily on his helmet and stir up the locks of his 

 iiair. 



And now he scanned the high-built houses of the 

 hospitable inhabitants and the neighbouring temples 

 liard by, and surveyed the splendour of the city; 

 Iiere gazing on the golden image of native*^ Athena 

 herself, and there passing the dear treasure of 

 Carneian Apollo, even the shrine of Hyacinthus of 

 Aniyclae, whom once while he played as a boy with 

 Apollo the people of Aniyclae marked and marvelled 

 whether he too had not been conceived and borne 



■^ See Pausan. iii. 13. 3-4-. With "native" (ivSaria) 

 Athena we may oorapare Carneios Oiketes. 



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