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The Trojan Women (551-595)

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In that hour around the house I was singing as I danced to that maiden of the hills, the child of Zeus;
when there rang along the town a cry of death which filled the homes of Troy, and babies in terror clung about their mothers’ skirts,
as forth from their ambush came the warrior-band, the handiwork of maiden Pallas. Soon the altars ran with Phrygian blood, and desolation reigned over every bed where young men lay beheaded,
a glorious crown for Hellas won, for her, the nurse of youth, but for our Phrygian fatherland a bitter grief.
568
Chorus Leader
Hecuba, do you see Andromache advancing here on a foreign chariot?
and with her, clasped to her throbbing breast, is her dear Astyanax, Hector’s child. Where are you being carried, unhappy wife, mounted on that chariot, side by side with Hector’s brazen arms and Phrygian spoils of war,
with which Achilles’ son will deck the shrines of Phthia on his return from Troy?
577
Andromache
My Achaean masters are leading me away.
Hecuba
Ah me!
Andromache
Why do you in note of woe utter the dirge that is mine?
Hecuba
Alas—
Andromache
For these sorrows—
Hecuba
O Zeus—
Andromache
And for this calamity.
Hecuba
O my children!
Andromache
Our day is past.
582
Hecuba
Joy is gone, Troy is gone.
Andromache
Unhappy!
Hecuba
For my gallant sons
Andromache
Alas!
Hecuba
Alas indeed, for my
Andromache
Misery!
Hecuba
Piteous the fate
Andromache
Of our city,
Hecuba
Smouldering in the smoke.
587
Andromache
Come to me, my husband, come to me!
Hecuba
Ah, hapless wife! you call on my son who lies in the tomb.
Andromache
Your wife’s defender!
591
Hecuba
Oh, you, who before made the Achaeans grieve, eldest of the sons I bore to Priam, take me to your rest in Hades’ halls!
595
Andromache
These great griefs—

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