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.
- Is the gold there? what is there to mark it?
- A black rock rising above the ground.
- Is there anything else you want to tell me about the place?
- I wish to keep safe the treasure I brought from Troy.
- Where can it be? inside your dress, or have you hidden it?
- It is safe among a heap of spoils within these tents.
- Where? This is the station built by the Achaeans to surround their fleet.
- The captive women have huts of their own.
- It is safe to enter? are there no men about?
- There are no Achaeans within; we women are alone. Enter then the tent, for the Argives