Enter Tyndareus.
Tyndareus.
Where, where shall I behold my daughter's lord470
Menelaus? Upon Klytemnestra's tomb
Pouring libations, heard I he had won
After long years to Nauplia with his wife.
Lead me: at his right hand I fain would stand,
And greet a loved one after long space seen.475
Menelaus.
Hail, ancient, sharer in the couch of Zeus!
Tyndareus.
Hail thou too, Menelaus, kinsman mine!—
Ha, what a curse is blindness to the future!
Yon serpent matricide before the halls
Gleams venom-lightnings, he whom I abhor!480
Menelaus, speakest thou to the accurst?
Menelaus.
Why not? He is son to one beloved of me.
Tyndareus.
That hero's son he!—such a wretch as he!
Menelaus.
His son. If hapless, worthy honour still.
Tyndareus.
Thou hast grown barbarian, midst barbarians long.485
