1 She is described by the Argive elders as speaking in riddles because they fail to understand her predictions.

2 The Argives voted unanimously to maintain the right of the suppliant.

3 And he wrote a book in which he took away the palm of beauty from Argive Helen and handed it to poor Penelope.

4 Being too cowardly to imprison him, Oedipus let him join the Argive army.

5 Nor turn your anger on Helen, as if alone in destruction she had destroyed that multitude of Argive lives and wrought incomparable woe.