Lo, of your own self you do guess how this matter would have fallen out, if the son of Atreus, fair-haired Menelaus, on his return from Troy had found Aegisthus in his halls alive.
ἦ τοι μὲν τάδε καὐτὸς ὀίεαι , ὥς κεν ἐτύχθη , εἰ ζωόν γ' Αἴγισθον ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ἔτετμεν Ἀτρεΐδης Τροίηθεν ἰών , ξανθὸς Μενέλαος ·
ἦ τοι μέν ὅδε αὐτός οἴομαι , ὡς ἄν τεύχω , εἰ ζωός γε Αἴγισθος ἐν μέγαρον τέτμον Ἀτρείδης Τροίαθεν εἶμι , ξανθός Μενέλαος ·