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Chorus
Woe and tribulation [630] were made my lot in life, when Alexander first cut his beams of pine in Ida's woods, to sail across the heaving sea [635] in quest of Helen's bed, loveliest woman on whom the sun-god turns his golden eye.
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. Hecuba, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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