Hecuba

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.

  1. Kill me, for in Argos there awaits you a murderous bath.
Agamemnon
  1. Ho! servants, drag away him from my sight!
Polymestor
  1. Do my words pain you?
Agamemnon
  1. Stop his mouth!
Polymestor
  1. Close it now; for I have spoken.
Agamemnon
  1. Make haste
  2. and cast him upon some desert island, since his mouth is full of such exceeding presumption. Go, unhappy Hecuba, and bury your two corpses; and you, Trojan women, must draw near your masters’ tents, for lo! I perceive a breeze
  3. just rising to waft us home. May we reach our country well and find all well at home, released from troubles here!Polymestor is dragged away by Agamemnon’s guards.
Chorus
  1. Away to the harbour and the tents, my friends, to prove the toils of
  2. slavery! for such is fate’s relentless hest.