the golden arrows; and with her came Adraste and set for her the

well-wrought chair, and Alcippe bare a rug of soft wool, and Phylo

bare a silver basket which Alcandre gave her, the wife of Polybus,

who dwelt in Thebes of Egypt, where is the chiefest store of wealth

in the houses. He gave two silver baths to Menelaus, and tripods

twain, and ten talents of gold. And besides all this, his wife

bestowed on Helen lovely gifts; a golden distaff did she give, and a

silver basket with wheels beneath, and the rims thereof were finished