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Menelaus
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synonyms: Μενέλαος ???
tags: [mythology]
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Definition:Helen of Troy's husband. He started the Trojan war in his attempt to get Helen back from the city of Troy where she fled with Paris.
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And to say nothing of historical instances dating from the “Fair Helen” of Menelaus, recently revived in the memory of all, a whole list of contemporary examples of husbands with unfaithful wives in the highest society rose before Alexey Alexandrovitch’s imagination.
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Did not Paris, though he were a welcome guest to Menelaus, serve his host a slippery prank?
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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If Menelaus when he got back from Troy had found Aegisthus still alive in his house, there would have been no barrow heaped up for him, not even when he was dead, but he would have been thrown outside the city to dogs and vultures, and not a woman would have mourned him,
Homer. The Odyssey (Butler translation)
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Even if it should be admitted that Menelaus had preferred Helen all his life, Helen would have preferred Paris; and so it has been, is, and will be eternally.
Leo Tolstoy. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
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