Euripides' HECUBA Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Hecuba: I wish to tell thee and thy children a private matter of my
own; prithee, bid thy attendants withdraw from the tent.

Polymestor: (to his Attendants) Retire; this desert spot is safe
enough. (The guards go out; to Hecuba) Thou art my friend, and this
Achaean host is well-disposed to me. But thou must tell me how prosperity
is to succour its unlucky friends; for ready am I to do so.

Hecuba: First tell me of the child Polydorus, whom thou art keeping
in thy halls, received from me and his father; is he yet alive? The
rest will I ask thee after that.

Polymestor: Yes, thou still hast a share in fortune there.

Hecuba: Well said, dear friend! how worthy of thee!

Polymestor: What next wouldst learn of me?

Hecuba: Hath he any recollection of me his mother?

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