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.
- It is a matter you little know of, king.
- Do you see this corpse, for whom my tears now flow?
- I do; but what is to follow, I cannot guess.
- He was once my child; I bore him in my womb.
- Which of your sons is he, poor sufferer?
- Not one of Priam’s race who fell beneath Ilium’s walls.
- Did you indeed have another son besides those, lady?
- Yes, the one you see here, of whom it seems I have small gain.
- Where then was he, when his city was being destroyed?
- His father, fearful of his death, conveyed him out of Troy.
- Where did he place him apart from the sons he then had?
- In this very land, where his corpse was found.
- With Polymestor, the king of this country?
- He was sent here in charge of gold, most bitter trust!
- By whom was he slain? What death overtook him?
- By whom but this man? His Thracian host slew him.
- The wretch! could he have been so eager for the gold?
- Just so, when he heard of the Phrygians’ disaster.
- Where did you find him? or did some one bring his corpse?
- This woman, who happened upon it on the sea-shore.