AG. But wherefore, Menelaus, dost thou come to strife with this man and art
dragging him by force?
MEN. Look at me, that I may take this commencement of my speech.
AG. What, shall I through fear not open mine eyelids, being born of Atreus?
MEN. Seest thou this letter, the minister of writings most vile?
AG. I see it, and do thou first let it go from thy hands.
MEN. Not, at least, before I show to the Greeks what is written therein.
AG. What, knowest thou what 'tis unseasonable thou shouldst know, having
broken the seal?
MEN. Ay, so as to pain thee, having unfolded the ills thou hast wrought
privily.
AG. But where didst thou obtain it? O Gods, for thy shameless heart!
MEN. Expecting thy daughter from Argos, whether she will come to the army.
AG. What behooves thee to keep watch upon my affairs? Is not this the act
of a shameless man?
MEN. Because the will [to do so] teased me, and I am not born thy slave.
AG. Is it not dreadful? Shall I not be suffered to be master of my own
family?
MEN. For thou thinkest inconsistently, now one thing, before another,
another thing presently.