Euripides' HECUBA Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Agamemnon: Ho! servants, hale him from my sight

Polymestor: Ha! my words gall thee?

Agamemnon: Stop his mouth!

Polymestor: Close it now; for I have spoken.

Agamemnon: Haste and cast him upon some desert island, since his mouth
is full of such exceeding presumption. Go thou, unhappy Hecuba, and
bury thy two corpses; and you, Trojan women, to your masters' tents
repair, for lo! I perceive a breeze just rising to waft us home. God
grant we reach our country and find all well at home, released from
troubles here! (Polymestor is dragged away by Agamemnon'S guards.)

Chorus: (chanting) Away to the harbour and the tents, my friends,
to prove the toils of slavery! for such is fate's relentless hest.



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