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The Trojan Women (87-115)

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So shall it be, for this favor needs only a few words. I will vex the broad Aegean sea; and the beach of Myconos and the reefs round Delos,
Scyros and Lemnos too, and the cliffs of Caphareus shall be strewn with many a corpse. You go to Olympus, and taking from your fathers hand his lightning bolts, keep careful watch against the hour when Argos army lets slip its cables.
A fool is he who sacks the towns of men, with shrines and tombs, the dead mans hallowed home, for at the last he makes a desert round himself and dies.
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Hecuba
Lift your head, unhappy one, from the ground; raise up your neck; this is Troy no more,
no longer am I queen in Ilium. Though fortune change, endure your lot; sail with the stream, and follow fortunes tack, do not steer your ship of life against the tide, since chance must guide your course.
Ah me! ah me! What else but tears is now my hapless lot, whose country, children, husband, all are lost? Ah! the high-blown pride of ancestors, humbled! how brought to nothing after all!
What woe must I suppress, or what declare? What plaintive dirge shall I awake? Ah, woe is me! the anguish I suffer lying here stretched upon this hard pallet!
O my head, my temples, my side! How I long to turn over, and lie now on this, now on that, to rest my back and spine, while ceaselessly my tearful wail ascends.

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