Helen [Ἑλένη], l. 1617ff (412 BC) [tr. Coleridge (1891)] - Euripides | WIST Quotations

MESSENGER: Nothing is more useful to mankind than a prudent distrust. [ἌΓΓΕΛΟΣ:σώφρονος δ᾽ ἀπιστίας οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν χρησιμώτερον βροτοῖς.] Informing Theoklymenos that Helen and Menelaos have escaped to Greece. (Source (Greek)). Other translations: Nought to man's welfare more Avails, than disbelief by prudence rul'd. [tr. Potter (1783), l. 1750ff] There's…