Andromache

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. I Andromache, envied name in days of yore, but now of all women that have been or yet shall be the most unfortunate[*](Reading εἴ τις . . . δυστυχεστάτη. Line 7 is probably corrupt in some way, or spurious; possibly the result of two ancient readings. Lascaris gave οὔτις . . . δυστυχεστέρα.); for I have lived to see my husband Hector slain by Achilles, and the babe Astyanax, whom I bore my lord,
  2. hurled from the towering battlements, when the Hellenes sacked our Trojan home; and I myself am come to Hellas as a slave, though I was esteemed a daughter of a race most free, given to Neoptolemus that island-prince,