メネラオスは全部で五隻を率いてアッティカの岬スニオンに寄せ、そこからまた風にクレタへ流され、はるかに漂って、リビュア、フェニキア、キュプロス、エジプトをさまよい、多くの財宝を集めた。一説には、エジプト王プロテウスのもとでヘレネを見つけたという。それまでメネラオスが連れていたのは、雲でできた彼女の幻だったのである。八年さまよったのちミュケナイに入港し、そこで父の仇を討ったオレステスに会った。そしてスパルタへ来て自分の王国を取り戻し、ヘラによって不死の身とされ、ヘレネとともにエリュシオンの野へ行った。
英文
Menelaus, with five ships in all under his command, put in at Sunium, a headland of Attica; and being again driven thence by winds to Crete he drifted far away, and wandering up and down Libya, and Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Egypt, he collected much treasure. And according to some, he discovered Helen at the court of Proteus, king of Egypt; for till then Menelaus had only a phantom of her made of clouds. And after wandering for eight years he came to port at Mycenae, and there found Orestes, who had avenged his father's murder. And having come to Sparta he regained his own kingdom, and being made immortal by Hera he went to the Elysian Fields with Helen.