Euripides' HECUBA Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Leader: Alas poor lady, our sufferings are cruel indeed.

Hecuba: (chanting) O my son, child of a luckless mother, what was
the manner of thy death? what lays thee dead at my feet? Who did the
deed?

Maid: I know not. On the sea-shore I found him.

Hecuba: (chanting) Cast up on the smooth sand, or thrown there after
the murderous blow?

Maid: The waves had washed him ashore.

Hecuba: (chanting) Alas! alas! I read aright the vision I saw in
my sleep, nor did the phantom dusky-winged escape my ken, even the
vision I saw concerning my son, who is now no more within the bright
sunshine.

Leader: Who slew him then? Can thy dream-lore tell us that?

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