Euripides' HECUBA Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Agamemnon: How? what wilt thou do? wilt take a sword in thy old hand
and slay the barbarian, or hast thou drugs or what to help thee? Who
will take thy part? whence wilt thou procure friends?

Hecuba: Sheltered beneath these tents is a host of Trojan women.

Agamemnon: Dost mean the captives, the booty of the Hellenes?

Hecuba: With their help will I punish my murderous foe.

Agamemnon: How are women to master men?

Hecuba: Numbers are a fearful thing, and joined to craft a desperate
foe.

Agamemnon: True; still I have a mean opinion of the female race.

Hecuba: What? did not women slay the sons of Aegyptus, and utterly
clear Lemnos of men? But let it be even thus; put an end to our conference,
and send this woman for me safely through the host. And do thou (To
servant) draw near my Thracian friend and say, "Hecuba, once queen
of Ilium, summons thee, on thy own business no less than hers, thy
children too, for they also must hear what she has to say." (The
servant goes out.) Defer awhile, Agamemnon, the burial of Polyxena
lately slain, that brother and sister may be laid on the same pyre
and buried side by side, a double cause of sorrow to their mother.

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