Stasimon 6
Neither bed-keeping —
1450
And bear unended sleeping,
Is our keeper, the kindest of mood!
Having borne, for a woman’s sake, much strife —
By a woman he withered from life!
Law-breaking Helena who, one,
1455
Hast many, so many souls undone
’Neath Troia! and now the consummated
Hast thou made flower-forth, red
With the blood no rains disperse,
1460
That which was then in the House —
1460
Strife all-subduing, the woe of a spouse.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
Nowise, of death the fate —
Burdened by these things — supplicate!
Nor on Helena turn thy wrath
As the man-destroyer, as she who hath,
1465
Many and many a soul undone
And wrought immense annoy!
CHOROS.
Daimon, who fallest
Upon this household and the double-raced
Tantalidai, a rule, minded like theirs displaced,