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HELEN

Volume 10 · 51 words · 1815 Edition

in fabulous history, the daughter of Tyndarus and Leda, was married to Menelaus, king of Sparta, but was stolen from him by Theseus, 1235 B.C. She was restored soon after; but carried off again by Paris, the Trojan prince; which occasioned the famous Trojan war. See TROY.

ST HELEN'S. See Hellen's.