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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 202 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 132 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 56 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 44 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 28 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Euripides, Helen (ed. E. P. Coleridge). You can also browse the collection for Libya (Libya) or search for Libya (Libya) in all documents.
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Chorus
Oh, that we had wings to cleave the air, where the birds of Libya go in their ranks, leaving the winter rain, obedient to the piping of their veteran leader, who raises his exultant cry as he wings his way over unmoistened and crop-bearing plains of the earth. O you winged long-necked comrades of the racing clouds, go on beneath the Pleiades in their central station and Orion of the night; deliver the message, as you settle on Eurotas' banks, that Menelaos has sacked the city of Dardanos, and will come home.
Theoklymenos
What is this man's country, and where did he come from, to land here?
Helen
He is a Hellene, one of the Achaeans who saiIed with my husband.
Theoklymenos
What kind of death does he say Menelaos died?
Helen
The most piteous, in the watery waves at sea.
Theoklymenos
On what part of the barbarous ocean was he sailing?
Helen
He was cast up on the harborless rocks of Libya.
Theoklymenos
How did this man not perish if he was sailing with him?
Helen
There are times when common men have more luck than their betters.
Theoklymenos
Where did he leave the wreckage of his ship before coming here?
Helen
Where ruin may come upon it— but not on Menelaos!
Theoklymenos
He is already ruined. In what ship did this man come?
Helen
Sailors happened to meet him and took him up, as he says.
Theoklymenos
Where then is that evil creature that was sent to Troy in your place?
Helen
You mean the cloud image? It has gone into the air.
Theoklymenos
O Priam, and Trojan lands, how you