“This tale is not true:
you never embarked on the well-benched ships
nor arrived at the Trojan fortress.”
οὐκ ἔστ’ ἔτυμος λόγος οὗτος,
οὐδ’ ἔβας ἐν νηυσὶν ἐυσσέλμοις
οὐδ’ ἵκεο πέργαμα Τροίας
Stesichorus, Fragment 15 (Helen, Palinodes)
“This tale is not true:
you never embarked on the well-benched ships
nor arrived at the Trojan fortress.”
οὐκ ἔστ’ ἔτυμος λόγος οὗτος,
οὐδ’ ἔβας ἐν νηυσὶν ἐυσσέλμοις
οὐδ’ ἵκεο πέργαμα Τροίας