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Hecuba (699-715)

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Refs {'start': {'reference': '699', 'human_reference': 'Line 699'}, 'end': {'reference': '715', 'human_reference': 'Line 715'}}
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Cast up on the smooth sand, or thrown there
after the murderous blow?
Maid-servant
The waves had washed him ashore.
Hecubachanting
Alas! alas! I now know the vision I saw in my sleep; the dusky-winged phantom
did not escape me, the vision I saw of you, my son, now no more within the bright sunshine.
Chorus Leader
Who slew him then? Can your dream-lore tell us that?
Hecubachanting
It was my own familiar friend, the knight of Thrace, with whom his aged father had placed the boy in hiding.
Chorus Leader
O horror! what will you say? did he slay him to get the gold?
Hecubachanting
O dreadful crime! O deed without a name! beyond wonder!
impious! intolerable! Where are the laws between guest and host? Accursed of men! how have you mangled his flesh, slashing the poor childs limbs

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