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. No, but will close over you when you fall from the masthead.
Hecuba
  1. Who will force me to take the leap?
Polymestor
  1. Of your own accord you will climb the ship’s mast.
Hecuba
  1. With wings upon my back, or by what means?
Polymestor
  1. You will become a dog with bloodshot gaze.
Hecuba
  1. How did you know of my transformation?
Polymestor
  1. Dionysus, our Thracian prophet, told me so.
Hecuba
  1. And did he prophesy to you nothing of your present trouble?
Polymestor
  1. No, for you would never have caught me thus by guile.
Hecuba
  1. Dead or alive shall I complete my life here?