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When Menelaus was aware of the rape, he came to Agamemnon at Mycenae, and begged him to muster an army against
Troy and to raise levies in Greece. And he, sending a herald to each of the kings,
reminded them of the oaths which they had sworn,1 and warned
them to look to the safety each of his own wife, saying that the affront had been offered
equally to the whole of Greece. And while many
were eager to join in the expedition, some repaired also to Ulysses in Ithaca.
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1 As to these oaths, see above, Apollod. 3.10.9.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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