Euripides' HECUBA Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Leader of the Chorus: There she lies near thee, Talthybius, stretched
full length upon the ground, wrapt in her robe.

Talthybius: Great Zeus! what can I say? that thine eye is over man?
or that we hold this false opinion all to no purpose, thinking there
is any race of gods, when it is chance that rules the mortal sphere?
Was not this the queen of wealthy Phrygia, the wife of Priam highly
blest? And now her city is utterly o'erthrown by the foe, and she,
a slave in her old age, her children dead, lies stretched upon the
ground, soiling her hair, poor lady in the dust. Well, well; old as
I am, may death be my lot before I am caught in any foul mischance.
Arise, poor queen! lift up thyself and raise that hoary head.

Hecuba: (stirring) Ah! who art thou that wilt not let my body rest?
why disturb me in my anguish, whosoe'er thou art?

Talthybius: 'Tis I, Talthybius, who am here, the minister of the Danai;
Agamemnon has sent me for thee, lady.

Hecuba: (rising) Good friend, art come because the Achaeans are resolved
to slay me to at the grave? How welcome would thy tidings be! Let
us hasten and lose no time; prithee, lead the way, old sir.

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