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,