After these things they met in assembly, and Agamemnon and Menelaus quarrelled, Menelaus
advising that they should sail away, and Agamemnon insisting that they should stay and
sacrifice to Athena. When they put to sea, Diomedes, Nestor, and Menelaus in company, the
two former had a prosperous voyage, but Menelaus was overtaken by a storm, and after
losing the rest of his vessels, arrived with five ships in Egypt.1
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1 Compare Hom. Od. 3.130ff., Hom. Od. 3.276ff.; Hagias, Returns, summarized by Proclus, in Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. G. Kinkel, p. 53.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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