Oh! mother, mother, why do you call so loud? what news is it you have proclaimed, scaring me, like a cowering bird, from my chamber by this alarm?HecubaAlas, my daughter!PolyxenaWhy this ominous address? it means sorrow for me.HecubaWoe for your life!PolyxenaTell it, hide it no longer. Ah mother! how I dread, I dread the import of your loud laments.HecubaAh my daughter! a luckless mother’s child!PolyxenaWhy do you tell me this?HecubaThe Argives with one consent are eager for your sacrifice to the son of Peleus at his tomb.