Hence with my child as booty am I borne; the noble are brought to slavery—a bitter change.HecubaThis is necessity’s grim law; it was just now that Cassandra was torn with brutal violence from my arms.AndromacheAlas, alas! it seems a second Aias has appeared to wrong your daughter; but there are other ills for you.HecubaYes, beyond all count or measure are my sorrows; evil vies with evil in the struggle to be first.AndromacheYour daughter Polyxena is dead, slain at Achilles’ tomb, an offering to his lifeless corpse.HecubaO woe is me! This is that riddle Talthybius long ago told me, a truth obscurely uttered.