“Strange being! Why wilt thou delude me still? Wouldst thou decoy me further on among The populous Phrygian towns, or those that stud Pleasant Maeonia, where there haply dwells Someone of mortal race whom thou dost deign To make thy favorite. Hast thou seen, perhaps, That Menelaus, having overpowered The noble Alexander, seeks to bear Me, hated as I must be, to his home? And hast thou therefore fallen on this device? Go to him, sit by him, renounce for him The company of gods, and never more Return to heaven, but suffer with him; watch Beside him till he take thee for his wife Or handmaid. Thither I shall never go, To adorn his couch and to disgrace myself. The Trojan dames would taunt me. O, the griefs That press upon my soul are infinite!”