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Hecuba (191-218)

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Ah! my mother! how can you speak of such a dire mischance? Tell me all, mother, yes all!
Hecuba
It is an ill-boding rumor I tell, my child;
they bring me word that sentence is passed upon your life by the Argives vote.
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Polyxena
Alas, for your cruel sufferings, my persecuted mother! woe for your life of grief! What grievous outrage
has some fiend sent on you, hateful, horrible? No more shall I your daughter share your bondage, hapless youth on hapless age attending.
For you, alas! will see me, your hapless child, torn from your arms like a calf of the hills, and sent beneath the darkness of the earth with severed throat for Hades, where with the dead
shall I be laid, ah me! For your unhappiness I weep with plaintive wail, mother; but for my own life, its ruin and its outrage, never a tear I shed; no, death has become to me
a happier lot than life.
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Chorus Leader
See where Odysseus comes in haste, to announce some fresh command to you, Hecuba.
Odysseus enters with his attendants.
Odysseus
Lady, I think you know already the intention of the army, and the vote that has been passed; still I will declare it.

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