Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN Complete

Translated, with Explanatory Notes, by Gilbert Murray.

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Hecuba

Daughter, away, away,
Cast all away,
The haunted Keys [15], the lonely stole's array
That kept thy body like a sacred place!

Talthybius

Is't not rare fortune that the King hath smiled
On such a maid?

Hecuba

What of that other child
Ye reft from me but now?

Talthybius (speaking with some constraint).

Polyxena? Or what child meanest thou?

Hecuba

The same. What man now hath her, or what doom?

Talthybius

She rests apart, to watch Achilles' tomb.

[15] The haunted keys (literally, "with God through them, penetrating them").] -- Cassandra was his Key-bearer, holding the door of his Holy Place. (Cf. Hip. 540, p. 30.)

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