songs, good or evil, of men unborn. In the last book of the Iliad we

meet Helen once more, as she laments over the dead body of Hector.

"'Never, in all the twenty years since I came hither, have I heard

from thee one taunt or one evil word: nay, but if any other rebuked

me in the halls, any one of my husband's brothers, or of their

sisters, or their wives, or the mother of my husband (but the king

was ever gentle to me as a father), then wouldst thou restrain them

with thy loving kindness and thy gentle speech.' So spake she;