Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN Complete

Translated, with Explanatory Notes, by Gilbert Murray.

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Hecuba

To watch a tomb? My daughter? What is this?...
Speak, Friend? What fashion of the laws of Greece?

Talthybius

Count thy maid happy! She hath naught of ill
To fear....

Hecuba

What meanest thou? She liveth still?

Talthybius

I mean, she hath one toil [16] that holds her free
From all toil else.

Hecuba

What of Andromache,
Wife of mine iron-hearted Hector, where
Journeyeth she?

Talthybius

Pyrrhus, Achilles' son, hath taken her.

[16] She hath a toil, &c.] -- There is something true and pathetic about this curious blindness which prevents Hecuba from understanding "so plain a riddle." (Cf. below, p. 42.) She takes the watching of a Tomb to be some strange Greek custom, and does not seek to have it explained further.

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