Crossword-Solution: MENEL 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Subsequently, during a visit to Menelāus, king of Sparta, he eloped with Queen Helen, and this brought about the Trojan war.

Nestor received him hospitably at Pylos, and sent him to Sparta, where Menelāus told him the prophecy of Proteus (2 _syl._), concerning Ulysses.

Agamemnon and Meneläus, flushed with wine, quarrelled openly in an assembly held at sunset, which broke up in disorder and tumult; the leaders, some of them, staying behind to please Agamemnon; others, drawing down their ships without delay and sailing off with Ulysses, came as far as Tenedos, and then turned again back.

But I, says Nestor-- But I, with my ships in a body, the whole that obeyed me, Fled, well perceiving that wrath was rising against us; Tydides also fled with me, his company calling; Later, upon our track followed the yellow Meneläus; In Lesbos found us, debating there of the long voyage, Were we to sail, to wit, by this side of rocky Chios, Making for Psyrie-isle, Chios being kept to the larboard, Or to the far side Chios along by the windy Mimante.