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[96] See 2.235. This quotation from Thersites intensifies the singular contrast between the whole of the present address and the tone of courteous regret which is elsewhere so characteristic of the attitude of Menelaos towards the Greeks. For αἰνόθεν αἰνῶς see on line 39.

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