May 18
Help me out, odyblrmind. In book 4, when Helen drugs the wine:
[219] Then Helen, daughter of Zeus, took other counsel. Straightway she cast into the wine of which they were drinking a drug to quiet all pain and strife, and bring forgetfulness of every ill. Whoso should drink this down, when it is mingled in the bowl, would not in the course of that day let a tear fall down over his cheeks, no, not though his mother and father should lie there dead, or though before his face men should slay with the sword his brother or dear son, and his own eyes beheld it.
Do Menelaios, Peisistratos and Telemakhos know that she's done it? Is it a secret act (of kindness)? Or an open acknowledgement of their shared pain?