I thank you for your consideration, unless indeed you have good news to tell.TalthybiusThey mean to slay your son; there is my hateful message to you.AndromacheOh me! this is worse tidings than my forced marriage.TalthybiusSo spoke Odysseus to the assembled Hellenes, and his word prevails.AndromacheOh, once again alas! there is no measure in the woes I bear.TalthybiusHe said they should not rear so brave a father’s son.AndromacheMay such counsels prevail about children of his!TalthybiusHe must be thrown from Troy’s battlements. Let it be so, and you will show more wisdom; do not cling to him, but bear your sorrows with heroic heart, nor in your weakness think that you are strong. For nowhere do you have any help; consider this you must;