Note 301 — AGAMEMNON
E. H. (Edward Hayes) Plumptre translation
In a corrupt passage like this, the text of which has been so variously restored and rendered, it may be well to give at least one alternative version:
“There stands she silent, with no honour met,
Nor yet with words of scorn,
Sweetest to see of all that he has lost.”
The words, as so taken, refer to the vision of Helen, described in the lines that follow. Another, for the line “In deepest woe,” &c., ... would give,
“Believing not he sees the lost one there.”