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80 The Destruction of Troy.
459. In the same clay, there was a great festival in the
island of Cythera, namely, a festival of Juno. Now when
Alexander drew nigh unto the port of Cythera (that Cythera,
a great island is it, with a temple of Juno therein), then did
fear seize the dwellers of the island at the vast fleet, and they
asked who was in the fleet, and whence they came, and why
they had come? Then Alexander answered them: „Priam, king
of the Trojans, hath sent on an embassy, his son, namely
Alexander, to go into the countries of the Greeks, to visit
Castor and Pollux."
468. So when Helena, Leda's daughter, own sister of Castor
and Pollux, and wife of Menelaus son of Atreus, heard of
Alexander's arrival in the port, she came out of the middle of
the island, till she was biding on the edge of the strand nigh
to the port wherein lay Alexander. Because her mind went forth
towards him, and she desired for her(self) the valiant boy, the
light and beauty and darling of the whole of Asia, with the
gift of shape and form and joyance of the men of earth: the
point of battle and splendour and manslaying of the north of
the world, from his splendour and his eminence; (him) that had
no room in Asia, on the east of the Tyrrhene sea, so that he went
westward into Greece and carried off victory and triumph in
every game in the assembly of Greece; and no warrior nor lord
nor crownprince of the folk of Greece could equal him, so
that his fame and eminence spread throughout the whole of
Europe in such wise that the ladies of the Athenians loved
him for those reasons. Wherefore the queen Helena came to
the strand that she might see with her own eyes 1 him whom
she had heard of with ears. In- that island stood a temple
and idol- house of Diana and Apollo, and therein did Helena
make her offerings to the idols at will, as was the custom of
the heathen on the festivals of their gods and their images.
Thereafter Alexander was told that Helen had come to the
port. When he heard that, he went vehemently to behold
Lit. with eyes of head.