Note 1744 — HESIOD (continued 2)
Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard) Evelyn-White translation
(return) [ Wooing was by proxy; so Agamemnon wooed Helen for his brother Menelaus (ll. 14-15), and Idomeneus, who came in person and sent no deputy, is specially mentioned as an exception, and the reasons for this—if the restoration printed in the text be right—is stated (ll. 69 ff.).]