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Category Archives: Euripides Hecuba
Hekaba 1251-1295
Polymestor: Oh woe, worsted, so it seems, by a woman, a slave, I shall lose my case to my inferiors. Agamemnon: Is it not then righteous, if indeed you have wrought evils? Polymestor: Alas for my children and my eyes, … Continue reading
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Hekaba 1187-1251
Hekaba: Agamemnon, it is not ever customary among men for the tongue to have the better of matters: if one performs a good service, he must speak a good word, if base, however, the words must be unsound, and he … Continue reading
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Hekaba 953-1186
Polymestor: Oh, Priamos, dearest of men, and you dearest Hekaba, I weep when I behold you and the city and she born of you, so recently dead. Alas; there is nothing trustworthy, not good repute nor again, that he acting … Continue reading
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Hekaba 905-952
Choros: And you, oh Ilios of my father, shall no longer be counted a city of the unravaged; a swarm of Hellenes of the sort around hide you with spear, indeed with spears they ravaged you. From the crown of … Continue reading
Hekaba 850-904
Agamemnon: For you and your child and thy fortune, I do, Hekaba, have pity and for your suppliant hands, and I want, on account of the gods and also of justice that unholy host to pay penalty to you, would … Continue reading
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Hekaba 626-849
Agamemnon: Hekaba, Why do you delay to come for covering your child in the grave, the very reason for which Talthybios announced to me that none of the Argeians were to touch your maiden? We therefore do not permit, nor … Continue reading
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Hekaba 657-725
Handmaiden: Ladies, where ever is Hekaba, she all-sorrowful, she who defeats the whole male and female seed in misfortunes? No one shall dispute her crown. Choros: What now, oh wretched girl, of your ill-tongued cry? For your distressing proclamations never … Continue reading
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Hekaba 629-656
Choros: For me calamity must, for me misery must be, when first the wood of Mt. Ida, the pine-wood did Alexandros cut down, to ferry upon the swell of the sea for the bed of Helena, the most beautiful that … Continue reading
Hekaba 518-628
Talthybios: Twice the tears you long to reap from me, my lady, in pity for your daughter; for both now, by harsh comment, you wet this eye, and before the grave where she was killed. I was standing nearby the … Continue reading
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Hekaba 438-517
Hekaba: Woe is me, I swoon; my limbs are loosed. Oh daughter, clasp your mother, stretch out your hands, give them. Do not leave me childless. I’ve been utterly destroyed, my loved ones… Even so the Lakainan sister to the … Continue reading
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