ἐς Σπάρταν. In the usual form of the story Helen was woo'd at Amyclae, not Sparta; but Theocritus here follows another legend, which appears also in Isocr. 215 e μετὰ γὰρ τὴν Θησέως εἰς ῞Αιδου κατάβασιν ἐπανελθούσης (τῆς ῾Ελένης) αὖθις εἰς Λακεδαίμονα καὶ πρὸς τὸ μνηστεύεσθαι λαβούσης ἡλικίαν ἅπαντες οἱ τότε βασιλεύοντες καὶ δυναστεύοντες (these are Theocritus' ἄλλοι ἀριστέες) τὴν αὐτὴν γνώμην ἔσχον περὶ αὐτῆς…ὑπεριδόντες γὰρ τοὺς οἴκοι γάμους ἦλθον ἐκείνην μνηστεύσοντες.
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