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Hecuba (629-658)

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Woe and tribulation
were made my lot in life, when Alexander first cut his beams of pine in Ida’s woods, to sail across the heaving sea
in quest of Helen’s bed, loveliest woman on whom the sun-god turns his golden eye.
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Chorus
For here begins trouble’s cycle,
and, worse than that, relentless fate; and from one man’s folly came a universal curse, bringing death to the land of Simois, with trouble from an alien shore. The strife the shepherd decided
on Ida, between three daughters of the blessed gods,
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Chorus
brought as its result war and bloodshed and the ruin of my home;
and many a Spartan maiden too is weeping bitter tears in her halls on the banks of fair Eurotas, and many a mother whose sons are slain,
is smiting her gray head and tearing her cheeks, making her nails bloody in the furrowed gash.
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Maid-servantentering excitedly, attended by bearers bringing in a covered corpse
Oh! ladies, where is Hecuba, our queen of sorrow, who conquers all in tribulation, men and women both alike?

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