Eurotas : (now Iris), river in south Peloponnesus. Sparta was on its banks.
... fibres remembers, the breezes are stored with our echoes. Over the stone-hewn steps for their limpid orient waters Joyous they leaned and they knew not yet of the wells of Mycenae, Drew not yet from Eurotas the jar for an alien master, Mixed not Peneus yet with their tears. From the clasp of the current Now in their groups they arose and dispersed through the streets and the byways, Turned from the... War would have stridden on Troy though Helen were still in her Sparta Tending an Argive loom, not the glorious prize of the Trojans, Greece would have banded her nations though Paris had drunk not Eurotas. Coast against coast I set not, nor Ilion opposite Argos. Phryx accuse who upreared Troy's domes by the azure Aegean, Curse Poseidon who fringed with Greece the blue of his waters: Then was this... thy challenge Rather we choose; it is nearer to Dardanus, King of the Hellenes. Neither shall Helen be led back, the Tyndarid, weeping to Argos, Nor down the paths of peace revisit her fathers' Eurotas. Death and the fire may prevail o'er us, never our wills shall surrender Lowering Priam's heights and darkening Ilion's splendours. Not of such sires were we born, but of kings and of gods, O Larissan ...
... challenge Rather we choose; it is nearer to Dardanus, king of the Hellenes. Neither shall Helen captive be dragged to the feet of her husband, Nor down the paths of peace revisit her father Eurotas. And Achilles, "musing of fate and the wills of men and the purpose of heaven,” towards battle turns in his soul. To the wearied Greeks he send his herald with the message that, if need be, he ...
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