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The Trojan Women (153-155)

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg011.perseus-eng2:153-155
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O Hecuba! why these cries, these piercing shrieks? What do your words mean? For I heard your piteous wail
echo through the building, and a pang of terror shoots through each captive Trojans breast, as within these walls they mourn their slavish lot.

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