AtKaviKo<; Ao'yo? vi Eiiripides. 17 



'Piio-is OF Helen, 914-965. 



1. Upooi/MLOv, 914-918 : 



Since you consider me an enemy, perhaps you will not 

 answer my arguments. But I will answer the charges which 

 I think you will bring against me.^ 



2. IIp6d€ai<i omitted. 



3. nt'crret?, 919-960 : 



a. 919-922. In the first place, this woman was the direct 

 cause of the evils because she gave birth to Paris, and Priam 

 destroyed Troy because he did not kill his son. 



y8. 923-931 (KciWet). Paris was the judge of the three 

 goddesses. Pallas promised him Hellas ; Hera promised him 

 Asia and the confines of Europe ; ^ Kypris, admiring my 

 form, promised me to him if she won the prize for beauty. 

 (Hence she is implicated.) 



<y. 931-937. Kypris won the prize, and thus my marriage 

 saved Hellas, since you are not subject to the barbarians. 

 Hellas has been fortunate, but I (the cause of this) am con- 

 demned. 



8. 938-950. You will say that I do not touch upon the 

 real question, viz., that I left your palace by stealth. I reply, 

 that the evil genius of this woman, call him Alexander or 

 Paris,^ came with a powerful goddess as his ally. Charge the 

 crime to her. Even Zeus is her slave. 



e. 951-960. You may maintain that after the death of 

 Alexander I ought to have returned to the Greeks. This I 

 tried to do, as the guards can bear witness, but I was forcibly 

 detained by Deiphobos as his wife. 



1 Vv. 916 fg. A case of TrpoKardXrji/'ts. Cf. gei fg. 



- V. 928. Nauck rejects this verse, and says (Eur. Stud. II, p. 150) : " Der 

 eingeklammerte Vers gehort zu den absurdesten Fabricaten, mit denen jamais 

 irgend ein Dichter besudelt worden ist." 



^ V. 942. For /cat Tldpiv Nauck would read eir d\d(TTOpa. See his exhaustive 

 comment on this verse in Eur. Stud. II, pp. 150-159. 



