From clear interpreters—a speech most seemly!
But speak, thou, herald! Menelaos I ask of:
If he, returning, back in safety also
Will come with you—this land's beloved chieftain?
Her. There's no way I might say things false and pleasant
For friends to reap the fruits of through a long time.
Cho. How then, if, speaking good, things true thou chance on?
Her. For not well-hidden things become they, sundered.
The man has vanished from the Achaic army,