have paid the dues of our trespass in agonies unutterable,
a company that might have wrung pity even from Priam:
witness Minerva’s baleful star, and the crags of Eubœa,
and Caphereus the avenger. Discharged from that warfare,
wandering outcasts on diverse shores, Menelaus,
Atreus’ son, is journeying in banishment even to the pillars
of Proteus[276]; Ulysses has looked upon Ætna and her Cyclop 5
brood. Need I tell of Neoptolemus’ portioned realms,
of Idomeneus’ dismantled home, of Locrian settlers on
a Libyan coast? Even the monarch[277] of Mycenæ, the